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The best-loved boarding girls' boarding school ever comes to our screens for the first time in 2020! NOW ON CBBC AND BBC iPLAYER.When Darrell joins Malory Towers, she's thrilled to be at the beautiful boarding school on the Cornish coast. There are new friends to make, lacrosse games to play, midnight feasts to eat and many stories to share. Should Darrell believe lively Alicia's tale of a school ghost? Are there some stories of her own that Darrell would rather keep to herself? As soon as she meets spiky, spoilt new girl Gwendoline, Darrell knows it's going to be a struggle to hide her secret and keep hold of her famously hot temper.This book is a novelisation (written by Narinder Dhami, author of the bestselling book of Bend it Like Beckham) of the gripping new CBBC/Family Channel series, produced by King Bert Productions, founded by David Walliams and Jo Sargent.

It's time to welcome new girls to Malory Towers, the famous boarding school by the sea, in four brand-new stories by outstanding authors, set in Enid Blyton's much-loved school.YA and Waterstones Book Prize-winner Patrice Lawrence introduces us to proud Marietta with her magnificent head of braided hair. A dormitory argument reveals something unusual about Marietta, and something equally unexpected about Alicia.In Guardian and Stylist columnist Lucy Mangan's story, student librarian Evelyn is wary of her lively, lacrosse-playing classmates. When one of them becomes a regular visitor to the hushed domain of the library, can Evelyn really trust her?Sunita Sharma joins Malory Towers surrounded by a sense of mystery, in Narinder Dhami's fabulous story. But is Sunita really as glamorous as Gwendoline imagines?In Rebecca Westcott's heartwarming story, Darrell and friends fear the worst when spoilt Gwendoline's cousin joins the school. But Maggie is very different from her stuck-up relative . . .

Join the Sleepover Club: Frankie, Kenny, Felicity, Rosie and Lyndsey, five girls who want to have fun – but who always end up in mischief!Fliss is desperate for a pet in The Sleepover Club at Rosie’s, and volunteers to look after the school hamster for the weekend. Oh-oh… Kenny’s horrible sister is out to make trouble in The Sleepover Club at Kenny’s – have the Sleepover Club met their match? And in Starring the Sleepover Club, it’s all fun and games with Fliss’s mum’s camcorder. Will the Sleepover Club discover screen stardom, or will their film be a flop?

Join the Sleepover Club: Frankie, Kenny, Felicity, Rosie and Lyndsey, five girls who want to have fun – but who always end up in mischief!In Sleepover Club Bridesmaids wedding bells are ringing for Fliss’s mum and Fliss and the gang are going to be bridesmaids! In Sleepover Girls and Friends the Spanish students the Sleepover Club met on holiday are coming to stay, and in Sleepover Girls on the Ball the gang sneak into the posh Green Lawns Tennis Club, but what will they do when the M&Ms spot them…?Three fantastic Sleepover Club stories in one, all with a special summery theme!

Pack your suitcase and prepare for take-off!What could be more fun than a sleepover in another country? The Sleepover girls plan a special sleepover when they go on a school trip to Spain. The only problem is that five troublesome Spanish girls seem set on spoiling all their plans …

Join the Sleepover Club: Frankie, Kenny, Felicity, Rosie and Lyndsey, five girls who just want to have fun – but who always end up in mischief.It's a Bonfire Night with a difference when feisty Asha arrives from India to stay with her aunt in Cuddington. Asha helps Frankie and her mates with their project for Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, and there's a crazy Indian sleepover and a whole lot of dressing-up fun thrown in. But trouble follows Asha wherever she goes – and when Asha's aunt loses a priceless necklace, the fireworks aren't the only things to go off with a bang!Light the fuse and run for cover!

Join the Sleepover Club: Frankie, Kenny, Felicity, Rosie and Lyndsey, five girls who just want to have fun – but who always end up in mischief!It’s thrills and spills for the Sleepover Club when they go karting! Danger, drama, chaos and that all-important winning race…

Join the Sleepover Club: Frankie, Kenny, Felicity, Rosie and Lyndsey, five girls who want to have fun – but who always end up in mischief!In Happy Birthday Sleepover Club, the girls celebrate the Sleepover Club’s 10th birthday in style – until they all start squabbling. Could this be the end? In Sleepover Girls on Horseback, the local riding school is threatened with closure. Can the girls raise enough money to save it? And it’s off to the sunny Costa Brava in Sleepover in Spain, where a group of five Spanish girls seem intent on causing trouble for the gang!

Join the Sleepover Club: Frankie, Kenny, Felicity, Rosie and Lyndsey, five girls who just want to have fun – but who always end up in mischief!When the Sleepover Club go on an overnight school trip to a local museum full of Egyptian relics, they plan a sort of 'museum sleepover'.At the official sleepover at Frankie's house the night before, the girls hatch a plot to scare their arch rivals the M&Ms. Once the girls are in the museum late at night, however things don't quite go according to plan…Pack up your sleepover kit and drop in on the fun!

Sleepover Club No 16 in which the girls Fliss, Lindz, Kenny, Frankie and Rosie decide to make over Rosie’s room. Messy fun from beginning to end – ace!Rosie is miserable – her dad has gone off on holiday instead of decorating her bedroom as promised. The Sleepovers decide to do-it-themselves that evening. What could go wrong? Well, somehow quite a lot goes wrong… Rosie’s mum is so annoyed with the mess that future sleepovers are banned! Then Fliss discovers a competition with a fantastic prize – a free room make over! They enter the competition on Rosie’s behalf but, in true Sleepover style, don’t ever manage to post the entry form…

Join the Sleepover Club: Frankie, Kenny, Felicity, Rosie and Lyndsey, five girls who just want to have fun – but who always end up in mischief.When Felicity’s mum buys a camcorder, the sleepover girls can’t wait to try it out. During filming, a minor accident turns into a superstunt, and Rosie has a brain wave: why not send the tape to a TV programme that pays for camcorder stunts?Will the Sleepover Club discover screen stardom or will the film be a flop?Pack up your sleepover kit and drop in on the fun!

Join the Sleepover Club: Frankie, Kenny, Felicity, Rosie and Lyndsey, five girls who want to have fun – but who always end up in mischief.Ooh la la – it’s half-term, and the gang is off on a school trip to Paris! The girls are thrilled to see the stars of their favourite soap filming on location, and they dare Kenny to ask for an autograph. But look out! Kenny’ll try every trick in the book to win a dare. Even if it means getting everyone into trouble…Pack up les baggages for a spree to Paree!

Join the Sleepover Club: Frankie, Kenny, Felicity, Rosie and Lyndsey, five girls who want to have fun – but who always end up in mischief!An Australian soap star is playing in Leicester’s pantomime and is rumoured to be living in Cuddington. The girls go in search – which can only mean disaster!

Join the Sleepover Club: Frankie, Kenny, Felicity, Rosie and Lyndsey, five girls who just want to have fun – but who always end up in mischief.When the girls decide to secretly design a website for Lyndz’s brother Tom’s band, they accidentally lose the only disk with a copy of the band poster on it – and it falls into the hands of a mystery e-blackmailer!

Join the Sleepover Club: Frankie, Kenny, Felicity, Rosie and Lyndsey, five girls who want to have fun – but who always end up in mischief!Fliss is desperate for a pet in The Sleepover Club at Rosie’s, and volunteers to look after the school hamster for the weekend. Oh-oh… Kenny’s horrible sister is out to make trouble in The Sleepover Club at Kenny’s – have the Sleepover Club met their match? And in Starring the Sleepover Club, it’s all fun and games with Fliss’s mum’s camcorder. Will the Sleepover Club discover screen stardom, or will their film be a flop?

Join the Sleepover Club: Frankie, Kenny, Felicity, Rosie and Lyndsey, five girls who want to have fun – but who always end up in mischief!The gang decide to form a pop group in The Sleepover Girls go Spice, except their secret rehearsal in the attic doesn’t quite go to plan… The 24-Hour Sleepover Club sees the mates at loggerheads with their dreaded rivals, the M&Ms – and they soon find that revenge can be sickly sweet! And make way for chaos in The Sleepover Club Sleeps Out, when a school trip overnight to a local Egyptian museum provides a perfect excuse for terrifying the M&Ms…

Build your child’s reading confidence at home with books at the right levelRudyard Kipling’s much-loved classic story for children, retold here by Narinder Dhami. Follow Mowgli’s adventures with Bagheera, Baloo and the wolf packs which he calls family, as he tries to escape the claws of vicious tiger Shere Khan.Sapphire/Band 16 books offer longer reads to develop children's sustained engagement with texts and are more complex syntactically.Text type: Fiction from our literary heritageCurriculum links: English: fiction from the English literary heritageThis book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.

Build your child’s reading confidence at home with books at the right levelCollins Big Cat supports every primary child on their reading journey from phonics to fluency. Top authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that children love to read. Book banded for guided and independent reading, there are reading notes in the back, comprehensive teaching and assessment support and ebooks available.Rajni and Sheela live in opposite flats, high up in the clouds in an apartment block in Mumbai. They wave to each other every day from their windows and believe they could be best friends … but they’ve never met! Will they ever get to know each other properly? This lovely story of friendship was written by Narinder Dhami.Lime Plus/Band 11+ books provide challenging plots and vocabulary as well as opportunities to practise inference, prediction and reading stamina.Pages 46 and 47 allow children to re-visit the content of the book, supporting comprehension skills, vocabulary development and recall.Ideas for reading in the back of the book provide practical support and stimulating activities.

Collins Big Cat supports every primary child on their reading journey from phonics to fluency. Top authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that children love to read. Levelled for guided and independent reading, each book includes ideas to support reading. Teaching and assessment support and eBooks are also available.Milo and his dad are moving in with Lily and her mum. Milo and Lily aren’t at all happy about it, and neither are their pets…Copper/Band 12 books provide more complex plots and longer chapters that develop reading stamina.Text type: A contemporary storyIdeas for reading in the back of the book provide practical support and stimulating activities

Collins Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds features exciting fiction and non-fiction decodable readers to enthuse and inspire children. The 7+ books are designed for children aged 7+ who need more practice to acquire phonics skills. They have age-appropriate content, more mature images, and are fully aligned to Letters and Sounds Phases 3–5.In 1912, the supposed remains of the earliest human ever discovered were unearthed at Piltdown. The remains were subsequently found to be fake, although no-one knows for sure who devised the hoax. This fascinating non-fiction book is structured like a mystery, taking the reader through how the evidence gradually didn’t seem to add up …Green/Band 5 books offer early readers patterned language and varied characters.The focus sounds in this book are: /ai/ ay, a-e, ey, ei.Pages 30 and 31 allow children to re-visit the content of the book, supporting comprehension skills, vocabulary development and recall.Reading notes within the book provide practical support for reading Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds with children, including a list of all the sounds and words that the book will cover.

Collins Big Cat supports every primary child on their reading journey from phonics to fluency. Top authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that children love to read. Book banded for guided and independent reading, there are reading notes in the back, comprehensive teaching and assessment support and ebooks available.Ruby adores playing football, but it’s 1921 and the Football Association has decided that football isn’t suitable for girls – and Ruby’s father is in complete agreement. Can Ruby’s ingenious solution save the day?Sapphire/Band 16 books offer longer reads to develop children's sustained engagement with texts and are more complex syntactically.Ideas for reading in the back of the book provide practical support and stimulating activities.

Big Cat Phonics for Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised has been developed in collaboration with Wandle Learning Trust and Little Sutton Primary School. It comprises classroom resources to support the SSP programme and a range of phonic readers that together provide a consistent and highly effective approach to teaching phonics.Amba and her mum are looking to clear the clutter and make a bit of extra money, and what better way than a car boot sale! Amba picks out items to sell, but she is very torn about her old toy tiger. Will she bring it back home again or will it start new life?

Big Cat Phonics for Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised has been developed in collaboration with Wandle Learning Trust and Little Sutton Primary School. It comprises classroom resources to support the SSP programme and a range of phonic readers that together provide a consistent and highly effective approach to teaching phonics.Craig wants to have fun at the fair, but Scarlet's only interested on riding the Monster Coaster, and it looks so frightening! Sometimes things turn out differently than we expect and being with family can be all the courage we need.

Big Cat Phonics for Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised has been developed in collaboration with Wandle Learning Trust and Little Sutton Primary School. It comprises classroom resources to support the SSP programme and a range of phonic readers. The 7+ books are designed for children aged 7+ who need more practice to acquire phonics skills.Shimmer is a red and reds never visit Pink Town. Zoom is a pink and pinks never even think of going to Red Town! It's always been this way, the pinks and reds stay away from each other. But, then Zoom and Shimmer stay out past dark. They can't find their way back and they bump into each other in the dark and shelter together until the are rescued. What will happen next?

Big Cat Phonics for Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised has been developed in collaboration with Wandle Learning Trust and Little Sutton Primary School. It comprises classroom resources to support the SSP programme and a range of phonic readers. The 7+ books are designed for children aged 7+ who need more practice to acquire phonics skills.Brook is convinced there's nothing interesting about the street he lives on, but a project for school means he has to delve deeper! Follow Brook as he discovers the stories of the people living on his street and gains a better understanding and appreciation of Green street. There's so much more to this street than you might imagine!

Big Cat for Little Wandle Fluency has been developed in collaboration with Wandle Learning Trust and Little Sutton Primary School. It consists of a range of chapter books with increasing word counts across 10 fluency levels aimed at children in Year 2 and 3. Each book builds reading confidence, stamina and speed and nurtures a love for reading.Fluency 2 books have a word count of 3360 words with an expected reading rate of 70 words per minute.Harry, Nazreen, Lily and Krish are school friends known for their love of practical jokes. They are the first people to be suspected when a classroom is found in a total mess. But this time it wasn’t them and they need to find the real culprit!

Big Cat Phonics for Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised has been developed in collaboration with Wandle Learning Trust and Little Sutton Primary School. It comprises classroom resources to support the SSP programme and a range of phonic readers. The 7+ books are designed for children aged 7+ who need more practice to acquire phonics skills.Justin does not like the jumper Gran made for him. But when he goes to the park, he realises that it can help with lots of things!

Big Cat for Little Wandle Fluency has been developed in collaboration with Wandle Learning Trust and Little Sutton Primary School. It consists of a range of chapter books with increasing word counts across 10 fluency levels aimed at children in Year 2 and 3. Each book builds reading confidence, stamina and speed and nurtures a love for reading.Fluency 1 books have a word count of 2880 words with an expected reading rate of 60 words per minute.Ollie's mum and Deepa's dad are getting married. Ollie and Deepa hate each other, so this wedding is set to be the worst day of their lives. But when disaster strikes, can they work together to put things right?

Fully Booked is a series of fiction and non-fiction for readers in KS3 who need reading practice in phonics and decoding skills. The paperback format resembles books their peers are reading, while the shorter length will help students gain confidence and make progress. They can be read in class or at home and are supported by free teacher notes.In 1912 scientists thought they’d found the earliest human remains at Piltdown, but it was a fake. Who created the hoax? No one knows for sure. This gripping book reads like a mystery, showing how clues slowly revealed the truth.This is a non-fiction mystery based on a real historical event.The focus sounds covered are: /ai/ ay, a-e, ey, ei.Free teacher notes for this book are provided on collins.co.uk which will help to develop comprehension skills, vocabulary acquisition and recall – leading to reading success.