Wild Cat: Band 18/Pearl (Collins Big Cat)

by Berlie Doherty, Zara Slattery (Illustrator)

Overview

Build your child’s reading confidence at home with books at the right level

Catrin lives in Wales, and prefers drawing animals to spending time with friends. One night, she hears an eerie howl from the nearby mountain – a wild cat. Can she confront her shyness and go in search of this rare animal? This sensitive story by award-winning author Berlie Doherty shows that courage and friendship can come from unexpected places.

• Pearl/Band 18 books offer fluent readers a complex, substantial text with challenging themes to facilitate sustained comprehension, bridging the gap between a reading programme and longer chapter books.
• Text type: A mystery story.
• Curriculum links: Citizenship: Choices.
• This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780008437169
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date:	07/01/2020
Series:	Collins Big Cat
Sold by:	HarperCollins Publishers
Format:	eBook
Pages:	80
File size:	35 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	10 - 12 Years

About the Author

Born in Knotty Ash, Liverpool, Berlie Doherty is the youngest of three children. She has been a social worker, a journalist, a teacher, and, for the past fifteen years, a writer.

Berlie has twice won the prestigious Carnegie Medal, for ‘Grannie was a Buffer Girl’ in 1987 and for ‘Dear Nobody’ in 1992. She lives in the Derbyshire Peak District.