To the Moon and Back: The Story of Katherine Johnson: Band 16/Sapphire (Collins Big Cat)

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.

Orcas are incredible creatures of the ocean that stay in their family group their entire lives. Discover their life cycle in this book, from birth to death and everything in-between – swimming, playing, hunting and surviving.

The glossary and index can be used to develop children's information retrieval skills further.

Sapphire/Band 16 books offer longer reads to develop children's sustained engagement with texts and are more complex syntactically.

Ideas for guided reading in the back of the book provide practical support and stimulating activities.