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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…
Die lyk van ‘n jong musikant word op die dak van ‘n verlate taxi gevind. Dit blyk dat hy die jongste slagoffer van ‘n taxi oorlog is. Die plaaslike gemeenskap is woedend oor die moord. Jimmy Valentine was vir hulle ‘n simbool van hoop. Die speurder in beheer van die ondersoek is Jake Mulligan, ‘n…
Wat kan nou lekkerder wees as om saam met jou vriende die land plat te toer en die een krieketwedstryd na die ander te speel! Maar van die begin af is dit duidelik dat hierdie nie ‘n gewone toer gaan wees nie. Wie probeer by die span se bussie inbreek? Is daar regtig iemand wat…
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…
’n Plaasmoord ruk ’n gemeenskap en familie tot stilstand en dwing die jong Faan Venter om terug te keer na die plek waar sy geliefde oupa vermoor is. Sy terugkeer na die plaas krap wonde oop van woede oor die moord, misdaad, korrupsie en die verval van die land. Faan is wanhopig oor sy toekoms…
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…
n Byderwetse bloemlesing gedigte wat tieners lus gaan maak om self te dig. Dit maak geskiedenis as die eerste bloemlesing vir jongmense waarin alle Afrikaanse digters uit alle groepe se stemme sy aan sy opklink – hier’s Enoch Sontanga se Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika en CJ Langenhoven se Die stem van Suid-Afrika, Mathews Phosa se Nou…
One of a series of top-quality fiction for schools. When Ben shows his pupils a film about the Nazis’ persecution of the Jews, they can’t believe it could happen. So he introduces a new disciplinary system in an attempt to shown them how powerful group pressure can be. But things get out of hand.
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.
Fanie Viljoen Alles gaan oukei wees, het Decker gese. Hy was verkeerd. n Wilde partytjie. n Gesteelde kar. n Jaagtog wat in chaos eindig. n Sak vol geld. Trent se ouers is die naweek weg en los hom alleen by die huis. Na n rowwe partytjienag saam met sy vriende wat met n wilde jaagtog…
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
Writing on a few pages only.
Alles by haar nuwe skool is vir Zita vreemd. Die kinders, die kos die sport, selfs die skoolwerk. Sy verlang terug na Kieriekroek waar sy grootgeword het – ‘n plek wat net soveel kleurvolle karakters het as wat hy swaarkry het. Dis net die gedagte aan Waldo by die nuwe skool wat Zita elke keer…
Die toetsreeks is verby en ‘n wonderlike langnaweek by die see le vir Thomas-hulle voor. Maar dan begin dinge lelik skeefloop: Thomas ontdek ‘n deurtjie in die vloer van hulle strandhuis wat reguit lei na die skuilplek van die gevaarlike perlemoensmokkelaar, Sharky Fortuin; sy beste vriend, Hannes, gedra hom skielik soos ‘n alien en hy…
Hierdie keur uit die trefferverhale van Die Pienk Traaisiekel en Die Pienk Baaisiekel is op aanvraag saamgestel. Met die eerste uitgawes van dié gewilde kontreiverhale het die ikoon, Fanus Rautenbach, gesê: “’n Prettige boek vol herinnering en onvergeetlike kitch. Dié boek is nie sommer nie – dis erfgoed.” Trek die suikerdons in lang drade van…
Carina Diedericks-Hugo Die toetsreeks is verby en ‘n wonderlike langnaweek by die see le vir Thomas-hulle voor. Maar dan begin dinge lelik skeefloop – Thomas ontdek ‘n deurtjie in die vloer van hulle strandhuis wat reguit lei na die skuilplek van die gevaarlike perlemoensmokkelaar, Sharky Fortuin; sy beste vriend, Hannes, gedra hom skielik soos ‘n…
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…
Die ongelooflike avonture van Hanna Hoekom – 9780624049401
Die toneelstukke in hierdie boek kan met groot vrug in die klaskamer gelees en bespreek word, maar hulle is eintlik bedoel om opgevoer te word. Daar is iets vir elke smaak; skreeusnaakse geheime en misverstande tussen mense, die bekoring van Afrika-legendes en self ‘n besoek van ‘n ander planeet af. Om the help om elke toneelstuk beter te verstaan, is daar ook verklarings van moeilike woorde, interessante vrae en ‘n hele verskeidenheid van aktiwiteite rondom die tema van die stuk.
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
Thomas se hele wereld ruk tot stilstand toe sy meisie, Alex, hom uit die bloute los. Boonop lyk dit of sy beste pel, Hannes, vooraf van alles geweet het. Asof dit nie erg genoeg is nie, maak die skoolhoof, meneer Volschenk, en die twee skoolboelies, Flip en Japie, Thomas se lewe vir hom moeilik. Toe…
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