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Revision-in-Action - Love and Relationships encourages students to test out and explore how the knowledge they have developed in lessons interacts with their own ideas. By the time they have worked their way through a booklet, they will be much more confident about how to put to good use everything they know about the poems in an exam situation. The booklet enables students to do the following: Identify poems they need to work on further Form links between different poems Focus on language, str...

A celebrity pawballer is coming to the village to open the new stadium. It's a very important day! Can the Bear Detectives make sure nothing goes wrong?

This is a new addition to the "Caribbean Writers Series" from award-winning author, Zee Edgell. "Time and the River" is about freedom and slavery, hope and betrayal. It tells the story of people who don't won their own land or time, or even their own bodies. Leah Lawson is the daughter of a slave owner and a slave woman in Belize. In dreaming of a better future, Leah must make some difficult choices. Her life takes drastic turns, change her from slave into mistress, and forcing her to take the l...

'I am truly a child of both countries and both cultures.' Born to an Indian father and an English mother, Jamila Gavin's childhood was divided between two worlds. Her earliest memories are of India, where she lived in a crumbling palace built for a prince, and learned to steal sugar cane and suck mangoes. But she would spend much of her childhood in England, where she picked blackberries, got chilblains, and learned to recognise doodlebug bombs. And between the two there were unforgettable jou...

Twelve-year-old Francis, the son of a very poor widow living in a Trinidadian village, is given the chance to go to San Fernando to work as a servant companion. It seems a great opportunity, but Francis has never seen a town, or been away from his family, and he is very afraid."

Comprising approximately 80 poems arranged chronologically, this collection covers the broad sweep of British history from prehistoric times to the present day. With particular emphasis on periods like the Tudors, Victorians and World War II, these poems illuminate key events and provide a fresh perspective on them. It includes excerpts from Anglo-Saxon and medieval ballads, and classics from Chaucer, Tennyson, Kipling, and Auden, as well as poems from some of our best contemporary writers inclu...

These wonderful plays are retold by Beverley Birch and complemented by stunning artwork from James Mayhew. This book makes a lovely present as well as being a wonderful collectable introduction to Shakespeare's work. The plays included are: "Romeo and Juliet", "Macbeth", "Twelfth Night", "A Midsummer Night's Dream", and "Julius Caesar".

When Hamlet's mother remarries shortly after his father's death he's suspicious. And when his father's ghost tells him that he was murdered by the queen's new husband, Hamlet swears to take his revenge. But how...?

A collection of straight-talking poems that capture the uncertainties and pressures of being in your teens. The collection includes poems on the subjects of domestic violence, drug abuse, teenage sex, bullying and joyriding. The poems are categorized by theme to aid classroom discussion around particular topics. This book should be a useful source of material for discussion in Personal, Social and Health Education at Key Stage 3 and 4.

Letts Explore Literature Guides help you to get to grips with the novels, poetry and plays most commonly studied for GCSE coursework and exams. This guide covers Salinger's Catcher in the Rye.

This packed anthology contains a vast selection of literature in Scots. From the Renaissance makars to contemporary authors, together with work in translation from a number of different languages, it gathers into one volume writers as diverse as Robert Henryson, William Dunbar, Robert Fergusson, Robert Burns, Jean Elliot, Walter Scott, Hugh MacDiarmid, Liz Lochead, Charles Baudelaire and Feodor Dostoevsky, as well as some of the finest anonymous ballads and songs ever composed. Arranged thematic...

Thirteen-year-old Nicky Morrison runs away from boarding school and problems at home to the tough life on the streets of London.

Who rules the school? Is it the head, the caretaker, the dinner ladies, the time table, the bell, or is it any of the other alternatives put forward in this poetry collection? Paul Cookson's poetry also appears in the third Sandwich Poets title, Elephant Dreams.

In an outstanding collection of both classic and new poems, thirty of the best contemporary poets have selected their favourite children's poem to appear alongside a poem of their own. Poets such as Sophie Hannah, Jackie Kay, Valerie Bloom, Wendy Cope, Kit Wright, Andrew Motion, Roger McGough and Matthew Sweeney rub shoulders with the likes of Robert Burns, Robert Louis Stevenson, John Betjeman, Edward Lear, Hilaire Belloc and e e cummings, to name but a few.

Packed full of GCSE-style questions to test understanding, this AQA English Literature for A* revision and classroom companion is designed to help students revise everything they need to know, and familiarise themselves with the types of questions that they may come across in the exam. Endorsed by AQA, this English Literature for A* revision and classroom companion provides in-depth coverage of all the externally assessed course content for the GCSE AQA course. The book clarifies the m...

This title is one of a series of literature guides using graphics, active learning techniques and self-test questions and is intended to encourage an explorative reading of and response to the text, develop the skills and techniques required by English literature coursework and complement the teaching approach used in schools.;The book offers a brief plot synopsis, a double-page graphic overview and insight into the text, a short introduction to major characters and themes, a who's who in the t...

Providing a thorough analysis of the text, this handy literature guide to Macbeth will help you fully understand the text. Plot and structure, as well as characters and themes, are explored in detail to help you prepare for the English exam. Prepare for your English exam confidently with this guide to Macbeth. Offering an in-depth exploration of the characters and key themes, this literature guide will provide a thorough analysis of the text to help you achieve the best results....

Having run away with her younger brother to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, twelve-year-old Claudia strives to keep things in order in their new home and to become a changed person and a heroine to herself.