Collins Big Cat - My Olympic Story: Band 15/Emerald

Follow Kwame Nkrumah-Acheampong's amazing life from a small town in Ghana to the slopes of the 2010 Winter Olympics, via the Snowdome in Milton Keynes. As the first Ghanaian skier in the Winter Olympics, this fascinating autobiography shows how perseverance and determination can overcome the greatest of challenges.

• Emerald/Band 15 books provide a widening range of genres including science fiction and biography, prompting more ways to respond to texts.
• Text type: An autobiography
• This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.

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.

Collins Big Cat is a whole-school reading programme that provides complete support for primary reading. Children will become fluent readers through hundreds of high-quality fiction and non-fiction banded books by award-winning authors and illustrators. In-depth teaching resources support you in developing and assessing key reading skills at all stages from early reading through to phonics, to guided, whole-class and independent reading for more confident readers.