Short and Manageable Novels

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A selection of novels especially for Level C and the start of the gymnasium, but also a few short novels for higher levels.

Please note! This section now contains titles that previously were in our Novel + Workbook section.
Please also note the many novels that now come with a FREE Workbook/Glossary at no extra cost!

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Across the Barricades (Heinemann)

By Joan Lingard. Heinemann. Hardback (157 pages)
Level: C
0140371796

Across the Barricades (Penguin)

Penguin/Signet Special. (170 pages)
Level: C
0582275245

Animal Farm (Longman)

Danish glossary available from: Forlaget Klingbjerg.
George Orwell’s famous fable needs no introduction. Longman-udgave med engelske gloser. (97 pages) Level: B/C
9780141036137

Animal Farm (Penguin)

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. Orwell's chilling ‘fairy story’ is a timeless and devastating satire of idealism betrayed by power and corruption.
Introduction by Malcolm Bradbury. Danish glossary available from: Forlaget Klingbjerg.
Penguin edition (same pages as previous, Penguin, Essential Penguin and My Penguin editions). (112 pages)
Level: B/C

0140272658

Are You Experienced?

Now with a FREE Danish Glossary!


William Sutcliffe’s novel is a gift for any English teacher! Dave travels to India with Liz hoping to get her into bed. Liz travels with Dave wanting a companion for her voyage of “self-discovery”. This novel is a gentle but pointed satire on the pretentious delusions of western backpackers when they meet Indian culture. It also pokes fun at the fumblings of young “love” … and much more. Lots of humour and lots to talk about. Give this one a try! (157.4 standard pages)
Level: B

8790273999

Are You Experienced? Glossary

Glossary by Christian de Thurah for use with William Sutcliffe’s highly teachable novel for level B. If you buy 10 or more copies of this workbook, we will reduce the price to kr. 10,95 ex. moms when we invoice you!
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Being There

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A simple man, accidentally thrown into a world of sex, money, power and national television, becomes a media superstar and a household name. Still one of most-read short novels. By Jerzy Kosinski — Black Swan edition. (86.43 standard pages)
Level: B/C

8790273249

Being There Workbook

Glossary with stress marking — and work points for use with Jerzy Kosinski's novel. If you buy 10 or more copies of this workbook, we will reduce the price to kr. 10,95 ex. moms when we invoice you!
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Bend it Like Beckham

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If you're 18, love Beckham and can bend a ball like him, the world's your oyster right? Wrong. If you're Jess – 18, Indian and a girl – you can forget it. Her wedding-obsessed parents have quite different ideas for her. But Jess joins a ladies football team and gets spotted by a talent scout." This is a book that will appeal to both girls and boys. It is the entertaining and inspiring story of a girl who is determined to follow her dream. It also deals with serious matters, such as the culture clashes that many young Asians have to live with. Author: Narinder Dhami. (94.4 standard pages)
Level: D/weak level C classes.

8790273265

Bend It Like Beckham Glossary

Glossary with stress markings for use with Narinder Dhamis novel. If you buy 10 or more copies of this workbook, we will reduce the price to kr. 10,95 ex. moms when we invoice you!
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big mouth & ugly girl

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The British edition.
Joyce Carol Oates’ hard-hitting, celebration of friendship in unlikely circumstances:
Matt Donaghy is the class joker, and Ursula Riggs is the misfit loner. Neither knows the other. But when Matt is suddenly arrested on a charge of threatening to blow up the school and massacre the students, Ursula is the only one who sees through the hysteria and hypocrisy, and corroborates Matt's story. The case is dropped, but Matt's old friends avoid him, and his teachers treat him with kid gloves. Even Ursula, apparently his only friend during the crisis, can't meet his eye. But Ursula can't remain aloof when she catches Matt contemplating suicide — and a friendship is born. This may sound like just another novel for young adults, but Joyce Carol Oates’ sure touch with small town life and great depiction of character turns it into something much more. Lots of good but accessible language — half the book is written in the first person. This one gets 5 stars! (288 pages)
Level: B/C

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big mouth & ugly girl

Joyce Carol Oates’ hard-hitting, celebration of friendship in unlikely circumstances:
NB! This is the American edition which doesn't have the same pagination as the British edition.
Matt Donaghy is the class joker, and Ursula Riggs is the misfit loner. Neither knows the other. But when Matt is suddenly arrested on a charge of threatening to blow up the school and massacre the students, Ursula is the only one who sees through the hysteria and hypocrisy, and corroborates Matt's story. The case is dropped, but Matt's old friends avoid him, and his teachers treat him with kid gloves. Even Ursula, apparently his only friend during the crisis, can't meet his eye. But Ursula can't remain aloof when she catches Matt contemplating suicide — and a friendship is born. This may sound like just another novel for young adults, but Joyce Carol Oates’ sure touch with small town life and great depiction of character turns it into something much more. Lots of good but accessible language — half the book is written in the first person. This one gets 5 stars! (266 pages)
Level: B/C
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Billy Elliot

NOW AVAILABLE AGAIN (with a new cover)! A popular title. Set during the miners’ strike action of the 1980s, this short novel is the story of a young working-class Durham lad who takes a fancy to ballet instead of boxing. He struggles to realize his unlikely dreams amid the conflicts of his family and community. Based on the highly praised film — a successful mixture of poetry and social realism. (151 pages)
Level: C
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Billy Elliot HB

New Windmill hardback edition of the novel. Set during the miners’ strike action of the 1980s, this short novel is the story of a young working-class Durham lad who takes a fancy to ballet instead of boxing. He struggles to realize his unlikely dreams amid the conflicts of his family and community. Based on the highly praised film — a successful mixture of poetry and social realism. (151 pages)
Level: C
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Blade Runner (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?)

Just  kr. 29,50 ex. moms as long as we have stock!

Philip K. Dick’s classic story. Android animals help expiate human guilt over the extermination of real ones. Rick Deckard hunts and ‘retires’ illegal android humans, and thereby comes to learn that the new messiah, a messenger of hope in a depleted world, may also be a fake, and begins to question just who is human and what human is. (210 pages)
Level: B
1888451785

Born on the Fourth of July

Ron Kovic's story of Vietnam and its aftermath of one young man who went off to fight for the American Dream. Reprinted in an Akashic Books edition. (176 pages)
Level: B
0192751670

Bound for America

This is the moving and interesting story of how Eamonn and what is left of his family after the great famine leave for America in search of a brighter future. Eamonn has to face many new hardships. The reader gets many insights into human relationships and into Irish and early American history – for instance the founding of the first unions. Fairly easy language and lots to talk about. A novel by Elizabeth: Lutzeier. (165 pages)
Level: C
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Boy

Now with a FREE Workbook (with a Danish glossary)!


This is Roald Dahl’s story of the first twenty years of his life. Funny, sad, nostalgic, and with lots of bite. In this book you will meet Dahl being sadistically caned by the later Archbishop of Canterbury and warming the toilet seat at Repton in icy weather for one of the “boazers” All described, of course, in Roald Dahl’s clear and delightful prose. Kan læses som et helt værk eller i uddrag. Workbook with glossary and working suggestions by Svend Aage Larsen.(114,3 standard pages)
Level: C/B.

8788497569

Boy Workbook

Glossary and background material. If you buy 10 or more copies of this workbook, we will reduce the price to kr. 10,95 ex. moms when we invoice you!
9781846686627

Boy A

Boy A is a coming-of-age story that looks at difficult questions about rehabilitation and redemption through the story of one young man. Jack, at the age of 24, has spent most of his young life in juvenile prisons for a monstrous crime — the murder of another child, the stuff that newspaper horror stories are made of. Completely innocent of the world, he is released from prison with a new name, new job, new home, new life. His anonymity is both a blessing and a curse as Jack has to deal with not being able to tell the people he gets to know, and love, of his true past. With the help of a benevolent case worker, he sets about trying to leave his past behind and ingratiate himself to this bewildering society. He gets a job, makes friends, and might even have the opportunity to fall in love with a co-worker. Yet Jack knows he is living a lie. The past haunts him and, in particular, memories of the boy he stood trial with cause him anxiety. To his new friends, he is a good guy with occasional flashes of unexpected violence. To his new girlfriend, he is strangely inexperienced and unreachable. To his case worker, he’s a victim of the system and of media-driven hysteria. But to himself, Jack is on permanent trial: can he really start from scratch, forget the past, become someone else? Can he ever truly connect with his new friends while hiding a monstrous secret? Slowly the world closes in on him. Author: Jonathan Trigell. (248 pages)
Level: B
9780099487821

Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

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This is a superb, teachable short novel by John Boyne!
This story is set in Berlin 1942. When nine-year-old Bruno returns home from school one day, he discovers that his belongings are being packed in crates. His father has received a promotion and the family must move from their home to a new house far far away, where there is no one to play with and nothing to do. A tall fence running alongside stretches as far as the eye can see and cuts him off from the strange people he can see in the distance. But Bruno longs to be an explorer and decides that there must be more to this desolate new place than meets the eye. While exploring his new environment, he meets Shmuel, a boy who lives a strange parallel existence on the other side of the wire fence. Shmuel, like the other people there, wears a uniform of striped pyjamas, and their meeting results in a friendship that has devastating consequences ... for Bruno's exploring means that he becomes consumed by the terrible process of which he is unwittingly a part. (216 [fairly short] pages)
Level: C-B (partnership with: Historie)
9780099547389

Boys Are Back

*NEW IN JUNE 2010*
A great, politically incorrect but thoroughly realistic autobiographical account of parenting:
When Simon Carr's wife, Susie, loses her battle with cancer, Simon is left to raise his five-year-old son, Alexander, on his own. Soon after, his eleven-year-old son from a previous marriage, Hugo, comes to live with them too. All too quickly, plumped-up cushions, crisp beds and a drifting scent of rosemary from the kitchen are replaced with a floor piled high with video-games, Lego and comics. While visiting mothers deem his parenting 'semi-feral', Simon retorts that his methods are simply 'free-range'. In this new all-male partnership, Simon faces the challenges of parenthood unaided, as father and sons alike learn to become a family again. This is an emotionally honest, compellingly anarchic and sharply comic story of a single parent's struggle with many perceptive and entertaining reflections on today's sex roles. Author: Simon Carr. (232 pages)
Level: (1st)-2nd year of Gymnasium/Many excellent extracts about sex roles / family life
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Cal

“ ... a doomed love affair and an account of the impossibility of living, in the circumstances of that doomed province, without redemption and without punishment”. CAL is a finely-drawn story of love and violence from Northern Ireland. Now in the Penguin Student Edition. (153 pages)
Level: B/C
9780340951415

Carrie

Carrie White is no ordinary girl. Carrie White has the gift of telekinesis. To be invited to the Prom by Tommy Ross is a dream come true, and a step towards social acceptance by her high school peers.
But events take a macabre turn on that horrifying and endless night. One of the shortest and most manageable of Stephen King’s novels. (256 pages)
Level: B
9780241950425

Catcher in the Rye

Danish glossary available from: Forlaget Klingbjerg.
J.D. Salinger's classic picture of a 16-year old American boy and his feelings about his teachers, parents, friends and acquaintances. (192 pages)
Level: B
0099755114

Cement Garden

Relaunch of the Vintage edition of Ian McEwan's novel. Four abruptly orphaned children retreat into a shadowy, isolated world, and find their own strange and unsettling ways of fending for themselves. (133 pages)
Level: B/C
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Chickenfeed (Quick Reads)

Norman Roche was convicted and hanged in 1925 for the murder of Elsie Cameron on a chicken farm in Essex. He was hanged still protesting his innocence. Even at the time there were doubts as to what had really happened. This short novel is Minette Walters view of what may have been the background. It is 1920 — the First World War has just come to a conclusion, and there is a drastic shortage of men. 25-year-old Elsie is frightened of being left on the shelf. When she lays eyes on Norman in church she quickly decides that he will be her husband. Startled and rather naïve, Norman finds himself agreeing to marry Elsie and moves away to Essex, to start a chicken farm. Their relationship is a doomed one. Elsie is very insecure and disturbed. She sees marrying Norman Thorne as her only chance of happiness and uses every feminine wile to ensure she gets her man. It becomes increasingly obvious, even to Norman, that Elsie has serious mental problems, and he desperately tries to get out of the relationship – especially when he falls in love with Bessie. But would Norman kill to get free from Elsie’s clutches? The police certainly think so, and so does a jury who pronounce him guilty. Much of this gripping story is built around around excerpts of actual letters that were exchanged between Elsie and Norman. This is a novel with much to say about human relations and the social mores of Britain in the 1920s. (117 [fairly short] pages)
Level: Gymnasiet/C-B

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Clover

Dori Sanders’ charming novel of black and white in South Carolina today. When 10-year-old (and black) Clover loses her father she is left in the hands of her new white stepmother — a situation full of possibilities for misunderstanding and prejudice, on both sides. All this duly happens, but this is a world where there is the chance of growing understanding and love. (183 pages)
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Coma

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A highly original novella by Alex Garland. A young man is brutally assaulted in an underground train while protecting a young woman from a gang of thugs. Beaten unconscious, he lies for days in a hospital bed – but appears to make a full recovery. On discharge from hospital, Carl picks up the threads of his daily life, visiting friends, seeing his girlfriend – until he starts to notice strange leaps in his perception of time, distortions in his experience. Is he truly reacting to the outside world, or  or could he still be in the coma?  So begins a psychological drama that raises profound questions about the boundary between the real and the imagined, and the core of our humanity. A highly original and atmospheric book, a thriller of the unconscious. (about 80 pages of text + 40 woodcuts created by the author's father, cartoonist Nicholas Garland)
Level: B

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Commitments

Roddy Doyle’s brilliant first novel. Needs no introduction, I think! (165 pages)
Level: B
9780752884493

A Cool Head (Quick Reads)

A great Ian Rankin story: “My dad used to say to me, ‘Try to keep a cool head and a warm heart’. At least I think it was my dad. I don't really remember him.” Gravy worked in the graveyard — hence the name. He was having a normal day until his friend Benjy turned up in a car Gravy didn't recognise. Benjy had a bullet hole in his chest, but lived just long enough to ask Gravy to hide him and look after his gun. Gravy had looked after things for Benjy before, but never a gun. When Gravy looked in the car he found blood, a balaclava and a bag stuffed with money. Gravy's not too bright but he wants to help his friend. So Gravy finds himself caught up in the middle of a robbery gone wrong, a woman who witnessed a murder, and some very unpleasant men who will do anything to get back the money Benjy stole ... (107 pages)
Level: C-D/9.-10.kl./(1.g)
9780747599937

Crossing the Line

Nick Geddes’s life is a mess. His sister’s boyfriend was killed in a school stabbing. His grandmother is decending into a world of her own, his mother has a ‘god-slot’ on local radio, and his father is drinking way too much. But that is nothing, because he is also crazy in love with Orla, the sister of the boy who has been killed, and she blames Nick! How can Nick make sense of this chaos, and look after his sister, and hopefully get lucky with Orla? An uncompromising (but also witty and compassionate) exploration of the ruthless Darwinian world of teenagers. Author: Gillian Philip. (268 pages)
Level: 1st/2nd Year of Gymnasium

0099470438

Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

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“The dog was lying on the grass in the middle of the lawn in front of Mrs Shears' house. It looked as if it was running on its side, the way dogs run when they think they are chasing a cat in a dream. But the dog was not running or asleep. The dog was dead. There was a garden fork sticking out of the dog.” This is a murder mystery novel like no other! The detective, and narrator, is Christopher Boone. Christopher is fifteen and has Asperger's, a form of autism. He knows a very great deal about maths and very little about human beings. He loves lists, patterns and the truth. He hates the colours yellow and brown and being touched. He has never gone further than the end of the road on his own, but when he finds a neighbour's dog murdered he sets out on a terrifying journey which will turn his whole world upside down. Much superior to Rain Man, this novel gives a fine and touching insight into the autistic mind. (268 pages)
Level: C/B

9781401308773

Dead Poets Society

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The story of a group of boys at a select American private school, their new English professor who revolutionises their lives, the secret club where they let their passions run wild — and the tragic consequences. A book that works really well in classroom. Workbook with glossary and exercises by Jean McVeigh and Peter Pederson. Same pagination as all previous editions. (162 standard pages)
“Denne workbook er glimrende ... ” (LK AngloFfles)
Level: B/C
8788497976

Dead Poets Society Workbook

Glossary and background material. If you buy 10 or more copies of this workbook, we will reduce the price to kr. 10,95 ex. moms when we invoice you!
9780099507055

Deportees

For the past few years Roddy Doyle has been writing stories for “Metro Eireann”, a newspaper started by, and aimed at, immigrants to Ireland. Each of the stories takes a new slant on the immigrant experience, something of increasing relevance and importance in today's Ireland. The stories range from Guess Who's Coming to the Dinner, where a father who prides himself on his open-mindedness when his daughters talk about sex, is forced to confront his feelings when one of them brings home a black fella, to a terrifying ghost story, The Pram, in which a Polish nanny grows impatient with her charge’s older sisters and decides — in a phrase she has learnt — to ‘scare them shitless’. Most of the stories are very funny — in 57 percent Irish Ray Brady tries to devise a test of Irishness by measuring reactions to Robbie Keane’s goal against Germany in the 2002 World Cup, Riverdance and ‘Danny Boy’ — others are deeply moving. And best of all, in the title story itself, Jimmy Rabbitte, the man who formed The Commitments, decides it's time to find a new band, and this time no White Irish need apply! Multicultural to a fault, The Deportees specialise not in soul music this time, but the songs of Woody Guthrie. Author: Roddy Doyle. (242 pages)
Level: For use from 10.klasse/the beginning of the gymnasium

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Different Seasons

Four novellas by Stephen King, who also shows us his non-horror side here: The Shawshank Redemption, The Apt Pupil, The Body, The Breathing Method. (499 pages)
Level: B+C
9781846686573

Dirty South

Set in Brixton, 20 years after the race riots, The Dirty South follows the adventures of Bricky teenager Dennis Huggins as he drifts into the easy, dangerous life of the shotta — or drug dealer — and discovers that, hard as the struggle for respect on the streets is, the struggle for love is harder still. At least Dennis has involved parents looking out for him; too many of his friends have no guidance other than that offered by their fellow shottaz, or the dubiously motivated black Muslims. This novel evokes the temptations of the thug life for young black men growing up in London's “Dirty South” It is a compelling novel that offers no easy answers, but refuses to shy away from asking the difficult questions. Author: Alex Wheatle was born in 1963 to Jamaican parents living in London. He spent most of his childhood in a children's home, which he left at 14 to live in a hostel in Brixton. At 18, he was involved in the Brixton uprising and went to prison for 3 months. On his release, he performed as a DJ and MC under the name Yardman Irie, moving on to the performance poetry circuit as “The Brixton Bard” in the early '90s. (214 pages)
Level: from the end of the first year of the Gymnasium
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Divided City

Divisions between Protestants and Catholics remain a significant problem in Glasgow today.  This book tells the story of two teenage boys — one Catholic, one Protestant — who become friends when they play on the same football team, even though they support opposing teams themselves:
A young man lies bleeding in the street. It could be any street, in any city. But it's not. It's Glasgow. And it's May — the marching season. The Protestant Orange Walks have begun. Graham doesn't want to get involved. He just wants to play football with his new mate, Joe. But when he witnesses a shocking moment of violence, suddenly he and Joe are involved — with Catholics and Protestants, a young Muslim asylum-seeker and his girlfriend, and all the old rivalries, and fears. This is a gripping tale about two boys, who must find their own answers — and their own way forward — in a world divided by differences. Author: Theresa Breslin. (230 pages)
Level: 9.-10. kl/1.g/Frilæsning

0099288494

Dr Fischer of Geneva

The Graham Greene Classic. Now in a Vintage edition but with the same pagination as the Penguin Edition.
Level: C/B
1860496059

Ellen Foster

“When I was little I would think of ways to kill my Daddy. I would figure out this or that way and run it down through my head until it got easy”. So begins Kay Gibbon’s tale of Ellen Foster, an eleven-year-old orphan driven to desperation by wicked relatives in this story of her battle for survival. A novel of the backwoods South. (126 pages)
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End of the Affair

Graham Greene. The story starts during World War II. Novelist Maurice Bendrix embarks on a liberating affair with a married woman, Sarah Miles. One afternoon a bomb falls on Maurice’s house. Sarah finds him lying unconscious and makes a deal with God, (whom she has never been close to): "I love him and I'll do anything if you'll make him alive.... I'll give him up forever ... People can love each other without seeing each other, can't they." Bendrix is left mystified, angry and alone. This is the story of a conflict between love of self, love of another, and love of God. (186 pages)
Level: B
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Fair-Weather Friend (Open Door Series)

A title in the Open Door series — original short novels from some of Ireland’s best authors, specially written for slow adult readers. An excellent combination of mature content and simple (but natural) language. Level: D-E

A novella by Patricia Scanlan about the nature of friendship. Sophie is a giver ... Melissa is a taker. Their friendship is put to the test on holiday in Spain. When the gorgeous Paulo appears on the scene, Melissa drops Sophie like a hot potatoe. Sophie is hurt and furious, but things change and in the end it is Sophie who comes into her own. Especially suitable for younger readers.(76 pages)
0586089039

Fifth Child (Flamingo paperback)

NB! We are now stocking the Flamingo paperback edition (same pagination as the Collins hardback edition, which is now out of print, but not the Longman edition, which is also out of print).

  • To download a free Danish Glossary in Word format with pagination that matches the Flamingo and Collins Cascades editions, please click HERE!

    Doris Lessing’s fine short novel about Harriet and David who have planned a perfect family life with lots of children, fidelity and love. Everything seems to be going fine until her fifth pregnancy and the arrival of Ben, the sinister “Fifth Child” who threatens to tear apart everything Harriet holds dear. A deeply disturbing book.(152 standard pages)
    Level: B/A
  • 8788497674

    Fifth Child Workbook

    Glossary and background material. Pagination matches the Longman edition, which is now out of print. NO CHARGE!
    1857989384

    Flowers For Algernon

    By Daniel Keyes. “Charly”. Now in the fine SF Masterworks series. (216 pages)
    Level: C
    0099273829

    Fly Away Peter

    Now with a FREE Workbook (with a Danish glossary)!
    (sidetal passer desværre ikke sammen med denne udgave af bogen!)

    Vintage edition — unfortunately not the same pagination as the Penguin edition (now out of print) and the Workbook. David Malouf’s clear and poetic short novel which contrasts the continuities of nature with the obscenities of war. For three very different people brought together, by their love for birds, life on Queensland coast in 1914 is a timeless, idyllic world of sandpipers, ibises and kingfishers. In another hemisphere civilization is rushing headlong into a brutal conflict. Life there is lived from moment to moment. Inevitably the two young men — sanctuary owner and employee — are drawn to war and into the mud and horror of the trenches in France. This novel is easy to find you way around in. Workbook with glossary and questions (119 standard pages) “... en god bog. Den er kort og sprogligt lettilgængelig og vil kunne Iæses i 1. g/HF-fællesfag. Arbejdshæftet giver god hjælp ved Iæsningen af bogen.” (AMM, ANGLO files).
    Level: C.

    8788497836

    Fly Away Peter Workbook

    Danish glossary and background material. Pages match the Penguin edition but not the present Vintage edition. NO CHARGE!
    0744582113

    Frankie's Story

    We are re-launching this short novel by Martin Waddle (= Catherine Sefton), which used to be one of the most popular novels for Level C.
    On the Republican Unity Park Estate the writing on the wall warns that enemies of "the cause" will not be tolerated. Frankie has always lived on the estate and knows its code of practice. But with her Protestant boyfriend and her loud opinions on violence she has been getting a reputation. Frankie has to face a hate campaign that is getting dangerously out of control. (144 pages)
    Level: C
    0571210856

    Gabriel's Gift

    Special Offer as long as we have stock at this price!

    A short novel by Hanif Kureishi. Gabriel. a 15-year-old North London schoolboy, is forced to come to terms with a new life once the equilibrium of the family has been shattered by his father's departure. His confused and immature parents are busy making messes of their lives. But Gabriel has a “gift” that helps him to make sense of his world — he can paint. A charming novel. (178 pages)
    Level: B

    9780007270088

    Girl on the Platform (Quick Reads)

    Best mates Mark and Pete board a train to London for their lads’ night out. As Pete finds a seat he notices a girl sitting on a bench. She looks sad and lonely. When the train leaves, he can't get her out of his mind because in her, he has seen a glimpse of himself. Over the coming months Pete sees the girl often, but when tempted to speak to her, his courage fails.Then one day she simply disappears. Hopelessly besotted by this girl he believes to be his kindred spirit, Pete will not rest until he finds her! Author: Josephine Cox. (85 [fairly short] pages)
    Level: C-D/9.-10.kl.
    0099416379

    Go Ask Alice

    The classic diary of a doomed 15-year-old drug addict. (162 pages)
    Level: C/B
    9780140026931

    Graduate

    Charles Webb’s classic novel. (192 pages)
    Level: B/C
    0007122721

    Hitler's Daughter

    Three children in rural Australia meet at the bus stop every morning and tell each other stories. The particular story in this text is about Hitler's daughter and the life that she leads in Nazi Germany — if it is a story. What would it mean to you to be Hitler's daughter? Would you share his guilt? Could you love him? (135 pages)
    Level: C
    074754459X

    Holes

    Stanley Yelnat's family has a history of bad luck, so he is not too surprised when a miscarriage of justice sends him to a detention centre. As punishment the boys must dig a hole each day. The warden claims it's "character building" but Stanley gradually realises that his real job there is to uncover the truth. Author: Louis Sachar. (231 pages/luftig typografi)
    Level: C