Sally Greaves should have gone straight home. If she had, she wouldn't be on the run with the mysterious Tyler and his young friend, Ben. She would be with her family. She would be safe. But Sally is anything but safe. She's being stalked by a terrifying gang. Why do they want to hurt her? Can she escape? Will she even survive the night?

Stancliffe House. A sprawling old house in the hills of Yorkshire - and a new home for the Brooks family. But for Frances and her brother Tom, their first day in the house is their first day of fear and terror. There's a cold presence in a long corridor in their strange new home, a presence that leads brother and sister to uncover the dark, terrifying history of Stancliffe House.

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. A community is thrown into chaos as a flock of hungry sheep take over the local town and cause mayhem! All the people want to do is live in peace once again, but who will be brave enough to stand up to this wacky woolly army?

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. One night, by the light of the moon, zombified chickens take over a sleepy country village. The chickens pop up anywhere and everywhere on the quest for food – making their way into other animal’s homes and gardens. In this humorous graphic novel, we follow the town’s residents as they try desperately to stop the chickens and find out who has put them in a trance … and why! Blue/Band 4 books offer longer, repeated patterns with sequential events and integrated literary and natural language. The focus sounds in this book are: /ch/ /sh/ /th/ /ng/ /ai/ /ee/ /igh/ /oa/ /oo/ /oo/, and adjacent consonants. Pages 22 and 23 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.

The storm outside passed and the late evening was calmly turning into night. As the light of the moon shone through Alice's bedroom window, the cat looked up and smiled a wide, toothy smile. "This is the Alice I have been looking for." Papercuts is an eerie and haunting series written to appeal to students aged 13+ who are intimidated by full-length novels. These sinister titles have a reading age of 8-9 and an accessible word count of 5,000-6,000. Written by respected and accomplished authors, they are packed with horror and elements of the supernatural. But be warned, they're not for the faint-hearted!