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Children's Books

Wood, Ashley

Hastings, Terry

Smithies

Hawkins, Tom

Darlington

Hospodaryk, John

Jackson, Luke C.

Education & Reference

Jacaranda

Summer's End has been written for motivated readers in first or second year secondary school. Although essentially a horror novel, it also covers themes and issues that teenagers will readily identify with such as peer pressure, identity, belonging and growing up. The conventions of the horror genre develop within a seemingly ordinary setting and the feeling of menace is built to a chilling climax. As part of the English Alive program, the novel has a number of accompanying worksheets, found in the English Alive Teacher Resource Book Phase 2, covering language, reading, thinking strategies, and an overview of the novel.

Summers End: The End is Near. . . (English Alive Novels)

Literature & Fiction

Sleeper is a fastmoving story in the tradition of the espionage genre, featuring a female protagonist, Sara Gray. Sara finds herself on the run after classified information is stolen during her best friend's 16th birthday party. She is determined to find out who's responsible. Themes treated are identity, belonging, morality and ethics, film piracy and the nature of family, power and wealth. As part of the English Alive program, the novel has a number of accompanying worksheets, found in the English Alive Teacher Resource Book Phase 3, covering language, reading, thinking strategies, and an overview of the novel. Sara Gray is sixteen years old. She can speak several languages, ride a motorbike at high speed, and beat a grown man in hand-to-hand combat. Only she doesn't know it... yet. Living in the Indian city of Udaipur, Sara attends Calderstone's International, the school of choice for families with ties to business, tourism and the government - families who must guard against prying eyes. When classified information is stolen during her best friend's birthday party, Sara Gray is determined to find out who is responsible, but she must first answer other questions. Who has been sending her cryptic messages? How has she developed incredible new abilities? And why is her head suddenly filled with memories of someone else's childhood? The answers will lead Sara from the backstreets of Rajastan to the playground of Bollywood's elite, forcing her to confront a terrifying possibility: that her whole life has been a lie.

Sleeper (English Alive Novels)

Code Name Sara Gray, the eagerly anticipated sequel to Sleeper, continues the story of 16-year-old Sara Gray, an unwilling secret agent. As a child, Sara was a member of a project known as HAMELIN, which secretly trained her to commit espionage on its behalf. After escaping their clutches in India, she has made it as far as the seaside paradise of Acapulco, where she thinks she is safe.When she is approached by a man asking for help to locate his missing daughter, Sara finds herself pulled back into the life of a spy. Travelling from fast-paced Mexico City to the jungles of Guatemala and the shadowy island of Cuba, she uncovers more than she bargains for - not only about the true reason for the girl's disappearance, but also about her own childhood.All the while, she is being hunted by a fellow operative, who will stop at nothing to complete his mission... Code Name Sara Gray is suitable for whole class study or as part of a wide reading program such as a literature circle. Written for third or fourth year high school students who are motivated readers, the many themes of the novel include identity, loss and the ethics of medical research. The novel is supported by five worksheets in the English Alive Teacher Resource Book Phase 4 that focus on language, reading, thinking and SOSE/Humanities/HSIE. There is also an MI/Bloom's Taxonomy matrix, with many additional activities in the appendices.

Codename Sara Gray (English Alive Novels)

An original graphic novel based on the IVF stories of its husband-and-wife authors and the 1-in-50 couples around the world like them. Conrad and Joanne met in their final year of university and have been virtually inseparable since then. For a while, it felt like they had all the time in the world. Yet now, when they are finally ready to have kids, they find that getting pregnant isn't always so easy. Ahead of them lies a difficult, expensive, and emotional journey into the world of assisted fertility, where each "successful" implantation is followed by a two-week wait to see if the pregnancy takes. Join Joanne and Conrad, their friends, their family, their coworkers, and a stream of expert medical practitioners as they experience the highs and the lows, the tears and the laughter in this sensitive but unflinching portrayal of the hope and heartbreak offered to so many by modern medicine. Full of beautiful and heartfelt artwork, this book will be a hit in any graphic health collection.

Two-Week Wait: An IVF Story

Jackson, Kelly

Parenting & Relationships

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