NEW LONGMAN LITERATURE 11-14
10 total works
Daughter of the Sea Cased
by Berlie Doherty, Roy Blatchford, and Madeleine Birch
While searching for his birthmother, fifteen-year-old James, a championship diver, discovers who his real parents are and where his real home is.
When fourteen-year-old Holly Starcross meets her father for the first time in eight years, the experience changes the way she thinks about him, her mother, and even herself.
What's the hook? A classic novel charting the moving, often violent events of the 'Votes for Women' campaign with a gritty edge of brutal real History What are the themes? Conflicting generations, individual vs society and friendship. Teaching points? Terrific for exploring cross-curricular links with history focusing on women's rights issues.
Published 28 April 1999
When Munroe Jaffray rescues a baby girl from the sea and takes her home to his childless wife Jannet, the couple feels their family is at last complete. But Jannet fears that the sea-people may want their daughter back. All her strength and love may not be enough to keep the child.
What's the hook? Powerful issues of conflict and adventure are especially compelling for boys. What are the themes? War, adventure and friendship. Teaching points? Gripping storyline and thrilling writing style provides many opportunities for shared and guided reading.
A diverse and engaging collection of literature from different cultures within the UK, including short stories, extracts from novels, drama and poetry, as well as writing from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. A vivid and contemporary collection which offers a rich diversity of perspectives on British society.
For as long as she can remember, Cat has been blissfully happy living with her grandmother - a famous psychiatrist who chain-smokes and rides a Harley Davidson. She calls her "Granny the Pag" a name made up in childhood when she couldn't spell 'pig', but which has now come to mean someone powerful and clever. When Cat's parents decide that at long last they want her to live with them, she has to fight as cunningly as any Pag to stay where she is.
Poems in my Earphone is a book for sitting down to as well as jumping up from, emphasising the artistry of performance. The Times Educational Supplement
It's small, it's got flashing lights and a laser gun...and it flies! When Tom and Geoff discover an extraordinary flying machine in a cave, it's the beginning of an adventure which will take them further than they ever dreamed...!