Secondary class sets

After her friend is taken a girl begins a journey with her animal companion through a dangerous country of ice and witches to find him

Alem thinks he is on holiday with his father in London, but his father has brought him to the UK to escape the war in Ethiopia and leaves him to survive by himself as a refugee.

Set in Jakarta, Indonesia, a boy who dreams of being a professional football player is caught up in the criminal underworld

A teen boy and girl from opposing factions in society take on the system and try to change it.

Sent by mistake to a juvenile correction centre, a teen boy discovers the wardens are using the boys as manual labour to find a buried treasure

Dickens' classic story about a young orphan who falls in with criminals on the streets of London.

An illustrated version of the traditional 8th Century Anglo-Saxon saga

A 10-year-old boy born with a facial abnormality attempts mainstream school for the first time

A boy is brought up by ghosts in the local graveyard after his family is killed by a murderer

Recounts the experiences of Joey the horse as he moves from life on a farm into the battles of World War One.

A group of teenagers are chosen to take part in a reality show where they must kill their competitors to win

Set in 18th century on St Kilda, a fowling party must survive being stranded

Conjoined twins start at a normal school after being previously homeschooled, and one of them develops a chronic heart disease endangering both of their lives.

A boy with behavioural problems is given a second chance after a new boy befriends him

Epic story of a man who trades in illegitimate children and a child who survives and is reunited with his gentleman father.

A boy who lives and works on a rubbish mountain, finds a bag with money and a map, which the police are very keen to get their hands on

In an oppressive regime of the future, a young boy finds himself leading a band of rebels to protect his community

A 15 year old autistic boy goes in search of a local pet dog's killer and writes a book about the process

When Coraline moves into a new house with her parents, she discovers a secret corridor that takes her into an alternative reality.

An American girl visits her British relatives for the summer, and is just experiencing her first major romance when a global war breaks out and disrupts all their lives

Afghanistan, 1975: Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the local kite-fighting tournament and his loyal friend Hassan promises to help him. But neither of the boys can foresee what will happen to Hassan that afternoon, an event that is to shatter their lives.

A boy spends the summer getting to know his older brother before he is executed, having spent the last ten years on death row.

A girl is drawn to the abandoned children's home next to her house and discovers a ghostly mystery when she sees a mysterious figure in the overgrown grounds.

Four teenagers are suspected of murder when a fellow classmate dies during the detention they were all in

A homeless teen boy must evade a serial killer after other homeless kids start disappearing from the streets

Set in the Great Depression in the US, two migrant ranch workers encounter trouble on a farm. Dyslexia-friendly edition.

A 16-year-old girl suffering with terminal cancer meets a boy at her support group meeting who makes her think differently about life and death.

An Earthman joins a gang of alien oddballs to explore the universe after Earth is destroyed by Vogons

A Midsummer Night's Dream is one of the most popular texts for study by secondary students the world over. This edition includes illustrations, preliminary notes, reading lists (including websites) and classroom notes.

Charts the descent into chaos of a group of boys stranded on a desert island after a plane crash

When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality. But gradually a cunning, ruthless elite among them, masterminded by the pigs Napoleon and Snowball, starts to take control. Soon the other animals discover that they are not all as equal as they thought, and find themselves hopelessly ensnared as one form of tyranny is replaced with another.

Follows the life of an 11-year-old Ghanaian boy living in inner city London and his ill-fated mission to find the person who knifed a boy from his school.

New cover reprint of the Christmas classic in which an elderly miser is visited by three spirits who show him the error of his ways

An edition of the play The Tempest which includes notes, commentary and scene summaries, with some photographs of productions.

Text of this classic Williams play

Provides the play text with commentary and background notes.

Provides literary and dramatic analysis of Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet

Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth in London, chief city of Airstrip One. Big Brother stares out from every poster, the Thought Police uncover every act of betrayal. When Winston finds love with Julia, he discovers that life does not have to be dull and deadening, and awakens to new possibilities.

Complete scripts of four plays by J B Priestley including An Inspector Calls

Set in a near-future New England, in a totalitarian theocracy where women are subjugated, one woman attempts to gain individualism and independence.