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About the Book A beautiful paperback edition of The Horse and His Boy, book three in the classic fantasy series, The Chronicles of Narnia. This edition is complete with cover and interior art by the original illustrator, Pauline Baynes. On a desperate journey, two runaways meet and join forces. Though they are only looking to…
There had been so mush to learn – so much that was different. In London, Diane has started school in a class with mostly white children. In Johannesburg, the only white children she had seen were the ones riding on the plastic horses at the Oriental Plaza. Diane struggles to find her feet back in…
Why does Sean risk going rock climbing in Montagu, when he knows his lungs may not hold out? Maybe the opportunity to spend time with the cool group, including the girl of his dreams, Tamsin, is just too hard to turn down… The climbing is intense, the rivalry over Tamsin is hectic, and then Kelly…
Born in a South Africa divided by racism and hatred, little six-year-old Peekay learns that small can beat big. Armed with this knowledge, he resolves to take on the injustices of his country, and sets his heart on becoming the welterweight champion of the world. Peekay starts to take boxing lessons, makes new friends, collects…
Edited by George Kulbacki, this collection brings together nine intriguing and astonishing stories by one of the most outstanding storytellers of our time. Stories include Man from the South, Lamb to the Slaughter, The Landlady, The Champion of the World, Galloping Foxley, Mrs Bixby and the Colonel’s Coat, The Ratcatcher and The Hitchhiker
When Christina is sent to live in the grand country house, Flambards, she doesn’t know what to expect. Once there, she meets two young men, Mark and Will, trying to cope with their bad-tempered father. She also discovers a passion for horse-riding and a love for life in the country. As time goes by Christina…
Description In its towering central characters, vast geographical and historical sweep, and its variety of style and mood, Anthony and Cleopatra is perhaps the most ambitious of Shakespeare’s designs. Yet the degree and nature of its success remain surprisingly contentious, and performances of the play have seldom matched the extravagant expectations of its admirers. Michael Neill’s wide-ranging…
This Newbery Medal-winning novel by bestselling author Katherine Paterson is a modern classic of friendship and loss. Jess Aarons has been practicing all summer so he can be the fastest runner in the fifth grade. And he almost is, until the new girl in school, Leslie Burke, outpaces him. The two become fast friends and…
In 1994, 16-year-old Emmanuel Taban walked out of war-torn Sudan with nothing and nowhere to go after he had been tortured at the hands of government forces, who falsely accused him of spying for the rebels. When he finally managed to escape, he literally took a wrong turn and, instead of being reunited with his…
The Taming of the Shrew Oxford School Shakespeare – 9780198392231
Much Ado About Nothing (Oxford School Shakespeare) – 9780198328728
Oxford School Shakespeare is an acclaimed edition especially designed for students, with accessible on-page notes and explanatory illustrations, clear background information, and rigorous but accessible scholarly credentials. Julius Caesar is a popular text for study by secondary students the world over. This edition includes illustrations, preliminary notes, reading lists (including websites) and classroom notes. This title is suitable…
Pygmalion – here presented in its definitive 1941 version, with footnotes indicating the textual variants from the first volume edition of 1916 – has spawned a great number of adaptations, among them the famous 1956 Broadway musical My Fair Lady, and shows ancient myth’s undiminished ability to find new incarnations in modern life.
Moose Flannagan moves with his family to Alcatraz so his dad can work as a prison guard and his sister, Natalie, can attend a special school. But Natalie has autism, and when she’s denied admittance to the school, the stark setting of Alcatraz begins to unravel the tenuous coping mechanisms Moose’s family has used for…
“Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don’t belong no place …With us it ain’t like that.We got a future …because I got you to look after me and you got me to look after you.” George and Lennie are migrant American labourers…
No Fear Shakespeare A Midsummer Night’s Dream Read& nbsp; A Midsummer Night’s Dream in all its brilliance and actually understand what it means. & nbsp; No Fear Shakespeare gives you the complete text of A Midsummer Night’s Dream on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand translation on the right.
Shy, introspective, intelligent beyond his years, caught between trying to live his life and trying to run from it, Charlie is attempting to navigate through the uncharted territory of high school. The world of first dates and mixed tapes, family dramas and new friends. The world of sex, drugs, and music – when all one…
These stories are intended as a way of introducing Shakespeare to lower secondary students. The language provides a flavour of the plays yet remains accesssible to a wide ability range.
The No.1 ladies’ detective agency consists of one woman, the engaging and sassy Precious Ramotswe, who sets up shop in Gabarone, Botswana. This unlikely herione specialises in missing husbands, wayward daughters, con men and impostors.
An ancient bridge collapses over a gorge in Peru, hurling five people into the abyss. It seems a meaningless human tragedy. But one witness, a Franciscan monk, believes the deaths might not be as random as they appear. Convinced that the disaster is a punishment sent from Heaven, the monk sets out to discover all…
Rodman Philbrick Outcasts Maxwell and Kevin, the former a giant of a boy who lacks intelligence and the latter a genius in leg braces, team up for a series of imaginative adventures that bring them undreamed-of discoveries. Original. Movie tie-in.
My name is Meredith Taylor. I am fourteen, a Virgo, and insanely competitive – I hate not being good at what I do. I love words, and on the days I don’t dream about becoming a zoologist, CEO of a major multinational or president of South Africa, I play with the idea of being a…
English for Life Reader Grade 9 Home Language – 9781770029804
Can you still have a home if you don`t have a house? In the spirit of The Truth About Jellyfish and Fish in a Tree comes a stunning debut about a family struggling to find something lasting when everything feels so fleeting. Always think in threes and you`ll never fall, Cora`s father told her when…
A delightful adveture full of humor and heart set in Elizabethan England! Widge is an orphan with a rare talent for shorthand. His fearsome master has just one demand: steal Shakespeare’s play “Hamlet”–or else. Widge has no choice but to follow orders, so he works his way into the heart of the Globe Theatre, where…
The Butterfly Lion – 9780006751038
Poetry Works 2 opens students’ experiences of poetry to a wider range. The selection includes the traditionally ‘classical’ English poems as well as 20th-century African and Caribbean, African American, and West Indian poets.
Callum and Iona make a pact, and with their shared secret they form a deep bond of friendship. The promise to keep their secret safe forever will change Callum’s world. Soar above the clouds in this enthralling tale of friendship, loyalty, and hope.
One of a series of top-quality fiction for schools, this is the story of a young boy’s journey through Europe after escaping from the camp where he has lived all his life. Faced with a host of new experiences, David gradually begins to understand the world around him.
Flour Babies by Anne Fine, won the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Children’s Book Award in 1992. When the annual school science fair comes round, Mr Cartwright’s class don’t get to work on the Soap Factory, the Maggot Farm or the Exploding Custard Tins. To their intense disgust they get the Flour Babies – sweet…
When a freak cosmic event renders most of the Earth’s population blind, Bill Masen is one of the lucky few to retain his sight. The London he walks is crammed with groups of men and women needing help, some ready to prey on those who can still see. But another menace stalks blind and sighted…
This title is part of a series of nine plays for children aged seven to nine. It is intended for guided reading sessions and is in line with literacy guidance. Each play in the series provides: easy-to-read text; colour-coded character parts for easy recognition; stage directions to introduce children to the features of play scripts;…
“Nothing But the Truth” tells the story of two brothers, of sibling rivalry, of exile, of memory and reconciliation, of the perplexities of freedom. “The past will always be a powerful presence in the present. We must never forget, but this does not mean that we must cling to the past, and wrap it around…
Felix Knutsson is nearly thirteen, lives with his mother and pet gerbil Horatio, and is brilliant at memorising facts and trivia. So far, pretty normal. But Felix and his mom Astrid have a secret: they are living in a van. Astrid promises it’s only for a while until she finds a new job, and begs…
ENDER’S GAME – 9780812550702
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