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Category>>Reading Programme>>Secondary Three
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The Life of Riley |
| Ages: 11-14 |
| by Joanna Nadin |
| This year I will utterly not snog random posh boys with congenital acne but will save myself for long-haired creative type with interest in tragicness and with musical potential i.e. Justin Statham. Though am not sure Justin has realized yet that I am THE ONE for him. Maybe he has heard I am rubbish at snogging... |
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The Meaning of Life |
| Ages:11-14 |
| by Joanna Nadin |
| Have only just got to grips with art of snogging so will need to get help fast. Or at least by 16th birthday. If it happens it needs to be earth-shattering and meaningful as it is, after all, the Meaning of Life. |
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My So-Called Life |
| Ages: 11-14 |
| by Joanna Nadin |
| Rachel Riley is the offspring of a depressingly unbroken home. Her mum and dad refuse to let her have a mobile phone, and have banned Ribena (too purple) and her favourite TV show (too common); her seven-year-old brother buys giant Des Lynam cut-outs and Will Young dolls from ebay and talks in Elvish; and the adopted dog eats her Pride and Prejudice boxed collection. It is time to change things.... |
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Rowan the Strange |
| Ages:11-14 |
| by Julie Hearn |
| How does a doctor examine a person's brain? They won't use any knives on me, will they? Rowan knows he is strange. But dangerous? He didn't mean to scare his sister. In his right mind, he wouldn't hurt a fly. But there's a place he can go where they say they can fix his mind . . . |
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NWS: Across the Barricades |
| Ages: 13+ |
| by Joan Lingard |
| A gripping book with accessible teenage characters facing challenges on many fronts. War, violence, prejudice, religion and relationships. |
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NWS: The Foreshadowing |
| Ages:11-14 |
| by Marcus Sedgwick |
| In 1915 seventeen-year-old Sasha leads a privileged life in a wealthy family. But Sasha has a terrible gift. She can see future deaths and, like the Trojan prophetess Cassandra, is doomed to be believed by no one. When she sees the end for her brothers fighting in France she has to act. But can she prevent the deaths she has seen? |
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NWS: Gangsta Rap |
| Ages:11-14 |
| by Benjamin Zephaniah |
| An accessible read with a hard-hitting plot ideal for reluctant boy readers. School life, loyalty and multicultural aspects. |
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NWS: Heathrow Nights |
| Ages:11-14 |
| by Jan Mark |
| Russell and his friends get banned from the school trip for disrupting a performance of Hamlet. Reluctant to tell their parents, they run away. Sleeping rough, Russell has time to think about life, death and Hamlet... at Heathrow airport. |
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NWS: Ruby Tanya |
| Ages:11-14 |
| by Robert Swindells |
| Asra, an asylum seeker, and Ruby Tanya, the daughter of a local man who is campaigning against the asylum seekers, are best friends. When a bomb kills a teacher at their school, the asylum seekers are blamed. About to be deported, Asra goes on the run with the help of Ruby. In hiding they discover a plot which has terrifying consequences. |
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NWS: Six Shakespeare Stories |
| Ages:11-14 |
| by Leon Garfield |
| Shakespeare's plays tell some of the best stories in the English language. In Six Shakespeare Stories, Leon Garfield has turned them into short readable tales bringing the plays to life in an ideal introduction to Shakespeare. |
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NWS: Stone Cold |
| Ages: 11-14 |
| by Robert Swindells |
| Homeless Link feels he has become invisible. When he meets streetwise Ginger, life becomes more bearable as he learns the tricks of survival. When homeless kids start disappearing Link starts to track down his suspect with an ominous sense of foreboding. |
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NWS: Mortal Engines |
| Ages: 11-14 |
| by Philip Reeve |
| In a world where cities prey on each other, capturing their inhabitants and recycling their parts. Tom embarks on a journey to return to the city that has abandoned him, accompanied by the cold and damaged Hester... |
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NWS: The Time Machine |
| Ages:11-14 |
| by H.G. Wells |
| The first, and still one of the very best, scientific romances. Time travel, adventure, injustice and survival. |
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NWS: The War of the Worlds |
| Ages:11-14 |
| by H.G Wells |
| One man's account of a Martian invasion and war on Earth. This is one of H.G. Wells' most vivid works where reality and fantasy are one, and the horror of a London devastated and overrun by Martians seems uncomfortably plausible. |
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NWS: Whale Rider |
| Ages:11-14 |
| by Witi Ihimaera |
| A magical and deeply moving story of a young girl's struggle against stubborn tradition and ingrained family attitudes. Family, growing-up, self-discovery, prejudice and courage. |
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NWS: Classic Short Stories |
| Ages:11-16+ |
| Edited by Mike Hamlin, Christine Hall and Jane Browne |
| Classic Short Stories offers you a selection of some of the best short story writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, selected to appeal to Key Stage 4 students. |
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NWS: From Here to There |
| Ages: 11-16+ |
| Edited by Steve Barlow and Steve Skidmore |
| Themes: Dangerous Journeys, The Great Outdoors, Cities, Root and Strange Lands |
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NWS: Stories from Around the World |
| Ages:11-16+ |
| Edited by Hilary Patel |
| This accessible and thematic collection for 14-16 year-old students contains a rich mix of stories from different cultures and traditions. |
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NWS: Stories Then & Now |
| Ages:11-16+ |
| Edited by Brian Hawthorn and Katherine Hawthorn |
| This collection contains pre-1914 and post-1914 stories arranged in thematic pairs, with activities. |
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NWS: Voices In Time |
| Ages: 11-16+ |
| Edited by John O'Connor |
| This collection of literary non-fiction contains extracts written at different periods in time, and activities for exploring and comparing them. Extracts include biography, autobiography, diaries, letters, journal, reportage and speeches. Voices in Time contains materials covering famous and fascinating people such as Nelson Mandela, Leonardo DiCaprio and David Beckham. |
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