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Othello (Active Shakespeare Series) – 9780636044630
This series of unabridged Shakespeare titles is based on the premise that students can reach a clear understanding of their work only through a close and careful reading of the text. The commentary facing each page of the text has been designed to suggest a critical interpretation of the play.
“Two hours ago a young woman died in the Infirmary…she’d swallowed a lot of strong disinfectant. Burnt her inside out…” Arthur Birling, a prosperous manufacturer, is holding a family dinner party to celebrate his daughter’s engagement. Into this cosy scene intrudes the harsh figure of a police inspector investigating the suicide of a young working-class…
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…
Refugee by Alan Gratz – 9781407184326
Twelfth Night William Shakespeare – 9780007902385
This title presents the tale of how a little girl named Fern, with the help of a friendly spider, saved her pig Wilbur from the usual fate of nice fat little pigs.
The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me – 9780141365435
Heroism or cowardice? A stunning story of the First World War from a master storyteller. Told in the voice of a young soldier, the story follows 24 hours in his life at the front during WW1, and captures his memories as he looks back over his life. Full of stunningly researched detail and engrossing atmosphere,…
*The #1 Sunday Times Bestseller**Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2021**A Barack Obama Summer Reading Pick*’A delicate, haunting story’ The Washington Post’This is a novel for fans of Never Let Me Go . . . tender, touching and true.’ The Times’The Sun always has ways to reach us.’From her place in the store, Klara, an Artificial…
Narnia Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe C. S. Lewis – 9780008752057
It’s My Life Stacie Ramey – 9781492694526
Danny the Champion of the World – 9780241558515
Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe The (Harper) – 9780007115617
Romeo and Juliet Longman – 9780582848740
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A mouse took a stroll through the deep dark wood. A fox saw the mouse and the mouse looked good. Walk further into the deep dark wood, and discover what happens when a quick-witted mouse comes face to face with an owl, a snake… and a hungry Gruffalo! Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s The Gruffalo is an…
*Winner of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize*’Malala is an inspiration to girls and women all over the world’ J K Rowling’Inspirational and powerful’ GRAZIA’For sheer inspiration read I Am Malala’ SUNDAY TIMES’A tale of immense courage and conviction’ INDEPENDENT’She has the heart and courage of a lioness and is a true inspiration’ Lorraine Kelly, THE…
From award-winning author, Catherine Forde, comes Fat Boy Swim, a story that will make you realise that anything is possible. Jimmy Kelly is fat. Lardy. Ginormous. Clinically obese. Inside, Jimmy doesn’t feel like Smelly Kelly, Fat Boy Fat. He’s just normal. His bedroom’s a pit. His feet stink. He hates getting up on school mornings….
Boy is Roald Dahl’s extraordinary glimpse into his childhood and early life. ‘An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details. This is not an autobiography. I would never write a history of myself. On the other hand, throughout my young…
Matilda is an exceptionally bright young girl. Her parents, Mr and Mrs Wormwood, think she’s just a nuisance. Matilda discovers that she has supernatural powers which are not only going to prove useful at home but also at Crunchem Hall School where she and her classmates must contend with the scariest headmistress of them all:…
One boy, one boat, one tiger . . . After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific. The only survivors from the wreck are a sixteen-year-old boy named Pi, a hyena, a zebra (with a broken leg), a female orang-utan – and a 450-pound Royal…
Fabulous Short Stories is a series of stories that not only enlighten and teach us, but broaden our horisons and open us up to our world. We come to understand other people’s experiences better and to earn many things, such as lessons about responsibility and justice, guilt and culpability. These are human stories, written to…
About the book: “The League of Youth” (1869) was Ibsen’s first venture into realistic social drama and marks a turning-point in his style. By 1879, Ibsen was convinced that women suffer an inevitable violation of their personalities within the context of marriage. In “A Doll’s House”, he portrayed the wife struggling to break free: this…
An entertaining and eye-opening look at the French Revolution, by Stephen Clarke, author of 1000 Years of Annoying the French and A Year in the Merde. The French Revolution and What Went Wrong looks back at the French Revolution and how it’s surrounded in a myth. In 1789, almost no one in France wanted to…
Translated by Irene Testot-Ferry. The Little Prince is a classic tale of equal appeal to children and adults. On one level it is the story of an airman’s discovery, in the desert, of a small boy from another planet – the Little Prince of the title – and his stories of intergalactic travel, while on…
Our well established and popular series which helps all your students to understand and enjoy Shakespeare’s plays, has been improved even further. BLRevised students’ notes are clearer, with detailed explanations of difficult words and passages, plot synopses, summaries of individual scenes,and notes on the main characters BLFeaturing a host of new photographs of stage productions…
Our well established and popular series which helps all your students to understand and enjoy Shakespeare’s plays, has been improved even further. BLRevised students’ notes are clearer, with detailed explanations of difficult words and passages, plot synopses, summaries of individual scenes,and notes on the main characters BLFeaturing a host of new photographs of stage productions…
Mrs Frisby and the Rats of Nimh – They are not like other rats. They work at night, in secret. Time is running out for Mrs Frisby. She must move her family of mice before the farmer destroys their home. But her youngest son, Timothy, is too ill to survive the move. Help comes in…
This collection of stories is for key stage 4. Each genre includes a pre-twentieth century story and tales by twentieth century writers. Genres include: Horror, Crime and Detection, Ghosts and Mystery, Love, Science Fiction. Each section includes activities for comparison work as well as suggestions for student’s own creative writing.
This Reader should be used with our English First Additional Language Grade 8 Learner’s Book and Teacher’s Guide.
Part of The New Penguin Shakespeare series, this text looks at Macbeth with an introduction, a list of further reading, commentary and a short account of the textual problems of the play. The series is used and recommended by the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Mponyane is very worried about his friend Frank, and knows that he is in grave danger. But Mponyane was born deaf and connot articulate a call for help. He cannot hear what people sya, he can only feel their unhappiness and fear. He knows that he must do something, anything to help save his friend.
When it was first produced in 1959, A Raisin in the Sun was awarded the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for that season and hailed as a watershed in American drama. A pioneering work by an African-American playwright, the play was a radically new representation of black life. “A play that changed American…
Play version of this novel that was a hit with adults and teenagers alike Play version of this novel that was a hit with adults and teenagers alike In his secret diary, British teenager Adrian Mole excruciatingly details every morsel of his turbulent adolescence. Mixed in with daily reports about the zit sprouting on his…
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…
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…
The internationally best-selling story of survival against the odds. There was a wild crashing sound, a ripping of metal, and the plane blew through the trees, out over the water and down, down to slam into the lake…Brian is a city boy. Not used to living rough. Until his plane crashlands in the Canadian wilderness….
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