Item category 2: Youth

'What I've found does the most good is just to get into a taxi and go to Tiffany's. It calms me down right away, the quietness and the proud look of it; nothing very bad could happen to you there, not with those kind men in their nice suits'. Meet Holly Golightly - a free spirited, lop-sided roma...

The bestselling student guide to writing at university, updated to include extensive coverage of online research strategies, computer tools and different types of writing tasks.

This book contains a mix of originally written exam-style questions, and questions adapted from past HSC exams, covering the entire syllabus.

This book is the second in the series of four books that aims to improve student's writing and give practical help with writing tasks in Year 8 and later years. The topics and text types covered in the book are designed to help students in their writing tasks for all school subjects. In Excel Eng...

It is 1948. Japan is rebuilding her cities after the calamity of World War II, her people putting defeat behind them and looking to the future. The celebrated painter Masuji Ono fills his days attending to his garden. His should be a tranquil retirement. But as his memories return to the past and...

A comprehensive and authoritative volume of Robert Frost's poetry, comprising 11 volumes. Meticulously edited by Edward Connery Latham, there are more than 350 poems. Includes simple images that summon the rural landscape of New England, and the author unfailingly moves the reader with his profou...

Aims to improve students' essay writing and give practical help with essay questions in Years 7-10. It breaks essay writing down into five steps to follow, and provides a range of questions to help students structure and write their own essays.

Jay Gatsby is a self-made man, famed for his decadent champagne-drenched parties. Despite being surrounded by Long Island's bright and beautiful, Gatsby longs only for Daisy Buchanan. In shimmering prose, Fitzgerald shows Gatsby pursue his dream to its tragic conclusion. The Great Gatsby is an el...

This book is suitable for students studying Year 9 Mathematics. Is has been specifically written to help students revise their work and succeed in all their class tests, half-yearly and yearly exams. This is a revised and extended edition with over fifty extra pages of work for students to complete.

From the author of Poetry Reloaded, comes a text for senior students that will enhance their appreciation and understanding of poetry while preparing them to master English exams and other assessment tasks. Through close readings of a wide variety of poems, Poetry Remastered offers new ways for s...