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Remembrance Featured
1915 - Scotland. Remembrance begins with a group of teenagers from two families, friends despite their social differences, on a picnic on a beautiful sunny day. Mostly romance is on their minds, but the peace of the day is shattered by the sound of a plane flying overhead - an omen of how the reality of the war across the Channel is soon to tear them away from such yo ...
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The Book Thief Featured
The student notes for MArcus Zusak's multilayered novel are pitched at the transition from year 9 to year 10. It is 1939, Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still. By her brother's graveside, Liesel Meminger's life is changed when she picks up a single object, partially hidden in the snow. It is &quo ...
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Forever
This teenage reading guide for Judy Blume's teenage classic Forever can be used to support group reading, perhaps as part of a school book club. Katherine and Michael meet at a New Year's Eve party. They're attracted to each other, they grow to love each other. And once they've decided their love is forever, they make love. It's the beginning of an i ...
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Sugar Rush
This teenage reading guide for Julie Brichill's Sugar Rush can be used to support group reading, perhaps as part of a school book club. Saucy, shimmering, loud and larger than life - come get your sugar fix! It's survival of the fittest at Ravendene Comprehensive - the terrifying teenage jungle for which Kim Lewis must trade her safe, posh private school. But he ...
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Brilliance of the Moon
This teenage reading guide for Lian Hearn's Brilliance of the Moon can be used to support group reading, perhaps as part of a school reading club. In the third volume of the phenomenal series that began with the best-selling "Across the Nightingale Floor" and then "Grass for His Pillow," the teenage lovers, Takeo and Kaede, are now married. But t ...
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Grass for His Pillow
This teenage reading guide for LIan Hearn's Grass for His Pillow could be used to support group reading, perhaps in a school reading club. Set in a mythical, feudal Japanese land, a world both beautiful and cruel, this intense love story of two young people takes place against a background of warring clans, famine and treacherous alliances.
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Across the Nightingale Floor
This teenage discussion guide for Lian Hearn's Across the Nightingale Floor can be used to support group reading perhaps in a school reading club. In his black-walled fortress at Inuyama, the murderous warlord, lida Sadamu, surveys his famous nightingale floor. Constructed with exquisite skill, it sings at the tread of each human foot. No assassin can cross it ...
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