Item category 2: Youth

Saved from certain death by a farmer's daughter, a runt pig befriends a literate spider who uses her web to make him famous.

Excel Developing Your Comprehension Skills aims to help Year 7-10 students become more confident and skilled readers. It provides a range of activities using interesting and contemporary texts to give students plenty of practise in reading and interpreting different kinds of texts. In Excel Devel...

Excel Year 9 English Workbook is the third in the series of four books that aims to improve student's writing and give practical help with writing tasks in Year 9 and later years. The topics and text types covered in the book are designed to help students in their writing tasks for all school sub...

Written for students of all abilities in Australia and New Zealand. Most major topis summarised with essential facts, formulas and rules.

Gogol is named after his father's favourite author. But growing up in an Indian family in suburban America, the boy starts to hate his name and itches to cast it off, along with the inherited values it represents. Gogol sets off on his own path only to discover that the search for identity depend...

When her father leaves the Church in a crisis of conscience, Margaret Hale is uprooted from her comfortable home in Hampshire to move with her family to the north of England. Initially repulsed by the ugliness of her new surroundings in the industrial town of Milton, Margaret becomes aware of the...

This third edition of Othello offers a completely new introduction by Christina Luckyj, providing readers with a nuanced understanding of early modern theatre and culture, and demonstrating how careful attention to Shakespeare's language, staging and dramaturgy can open up fresh interpretations o...

Mr and Mrs Bennet live with their five daughters at Longbourn in Hertfordshire. Jane, the eldest, falls in love with Charles Bingley, a rich bachelor who takes a house nearby with his two sisters and friend Fitzwilliam Darcy. Darcy is attracted to the second daughter, Elizabeth.

In July 1942, thirteen-year-old Anne Frank and her family, fleeing the horrors of Nazi occupation, went into hiding in an Amsterdam warehouse. Over the next two years, Anne describes not only the daily frustrations of living in such close quarters, but also her thoughts, feelings and longings as ...