The third edition fully covers both Core and Extended content through the 'spiral' approach, where students build their previous learning as they progress through the course. In addition to wealth of practice questions and support for English as second language learners, we have included a number of projects to encourage students to put their theory into practice provided by NRICH – a collabo…
Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl, prays every day for beauty. Mocked by other children for the dark skin, curly hair, and brown eyes that set her apart, she yearns for normalcy, for the blond hair and blue eyes that she believes will allow her to finally fit in.Yet as her dream grows more fervent, her life slowly starts to disintegrate in the face of adversity and strife. A powerful examina…
Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of his life he, too, will be trying to fly. With this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison transfigures the coming-of-age story as audaciously as Saul Bellow or Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez. As she follows Milkman from his rustbelt city to the place of his familyâ…
Toni Morrison's first novel, The Bluest Eye (1970), was acclaimed as the work of an important talent. Sula has the same power, the same beauty. At its center--a friendship between two women, a friendship whose intensity first sustains, then injures. Sula and Nel--both black, both smart, both poor, raised in a small Ohio town--meet when they are twelve, wishbone thin and dreaming of princes.…
The first book in a three-level science series covering the lower secondary grades and designed for children in English-medium schools, for whom English is not the first language.