New Windmills - Pearson
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Literature Ages 11-14 UK Years 7-9 US Grades 6-8<br />
<strong>New</strong> <strong>Windmills</strong><br />
Year 7/Grade 6<br />
Eoin Colfer<br />
Artemis Fowl<br />
No human being has ever got the better of a fairy.<br />
Enter twelve-year-old Artemis Fowl, ingenious<br />
criminal mastermind. Determined to get the fairy<br />
gold, he puts a brilliant plan into action. But these are<br />
no ordinary fairies…<br />
What are the themes?<br />
Courage, wealth, greed and excess.<br />
Teaching points<br />
Perfect for identifying and exploring conventions of<br />
the fantasy genre.<br />
Further support?<br />
FREE online teaching and learning resources.<br />
“I cannot recommend this book highly enough; it<br />
would be a delight to use in the classroom”<br />
Andrew Hamlin, English teacher<br />
Available in Hardback<br />
Frank Cottrell Boyce<br />
Cosmic<br />
Liam Digby is tall. Unusually tall for a twelve-year-old<br />
boy. Everyone thinks Liam’s too big to be a little boy<br />
any more, but he’s not old enough to be a grown-up<br />
either. When he enters a Greatest Dad contest<br />
to win himself and his friend a trip of a lifetime to<br />
<br />
he is soon to discover that being a dad is hard work<br />
…especially when you’re piloting a rocket at the<br />
same time!<br />
What are the themes?<br />
Family, friendship, relationships, growing-up,<br />
discrimination and prejudice.<br />
Teaching points<br />
Provides an ideal model for students’ own writing,<br />
with opportunities to explore the writer’s use of<br />
humour.<br />
Further support?<br />
The COSMIC Teaching and Assessment Pack provides<br />
a full set of teacher’s resources including lesson plans,<br />
videos, resource sheets and assessment tasks.<br />
Shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2009<br />
<br />
“A novel to treasure…heart-warming, beautifully<br />
written, completely satisfying.”<br />
Carnegie Medal judge<br />
Available in Hardback<br />
Frank Cottrell Boyce<br />
Millions<br />
When a railway heist goes wrong and an enormous<br />
bag of money falls from the sky<br />
into the hands of two brothers, Damian and<br />
Anthony, there’s only one thing to do – spend<br />
it like there’s no tomorrow! But how can two young<br />
boys hope to spend a quarter of a million quid in a<br />
week?<br />
What are the themes?<br />
Bereavement, family, growing-up, self-discovery,<br />
responsibility, relationships, social conscience and<br />
money and its power to corrupt.<br />
Teaching points<br />
Numerous opportunities for studying objectives<br />
relating to humour, dialogue, characterisation and<br />
<br />
opportunities for<br />
media work.<br />
Further support?<br />
FREE online resources and support.<br />
“Its hard to imagine a person who wouldn’t enjoy it”<br />
The Guardian<br />
Available in Hardback<br />
Anne Fine<br />
Flour Babies<br />
Simon Martin’s class is unexpectedly given the task<br />
of looking after pretend babies made out of sacks of<br />
<br />
to learn more than he could ever have imagined.<br />
What are the themes?<br />
Friendship, home and school life are central to this<br />
novel which has strong links to<br />
Citizenship and PSHE.<br />
Teaching points<br />
Provides numerous opportunities for creative<br />
writing, drama activities and shared and guided<br />
reading.<br />
“Funny and moving, Flour Babies is an uplifting, selfraising<br />
story”<br />
The Guardian<br />
Winner of the Carnegie Medal 1993<br />
Available in Hardback<br />
<br />
F.E. Higgins<br />
The Black Book of Secrets<br />
When Ludlow Fitch escapes from his treacherous<br />
parents, he falls in with a mysterious pawnbroker<br />
who trades in people’s secrets. Ludlow begins<br />
recording the darkest stories of the villagers in the<br />
ancient Black Book of Secrets. When will the villagers<br />
realise the hold that the pawnbroker has over them?<br />
What are the themes?<br />
Responsibility, loyalty, imagination and moral<br />
dilemmas.<br />
Teaching points<br />
Multiple narrative perspectives and stories within a<br />
story provide rich opportunities to explore shifts in<br />
perspective.<br />
Further support?<br />
The Teaching and Assessment Pack supports<br />
teachers through detailed lessons plans, resource<br />
sheets, video clips and assessment tasks.<br />
“Wonderful. - the story grabs at the reader with<br />
hooked talons.”<br />
Eoin Colfer<br />
Available in Hardback<br />
Nigel Hinton<br />
Buddy<br />
Thirteen-year-old Buddy has to cope with not only<br />
his own problems but also those of his parents. His<br />
father, still dreaming of his Teddy-boy youth, turns to<br />
crime and his mother leaves home to make a better<br />
life for herself. A sympathetic look at the confusions<br />
of adolescence.<br />
What are the themes?<br />
Growing up, racism, family, school, bullying, crime and<br />
fatherhood.<br />
Teaching points<br />
Perfect for looking at the characterisation of Buddy<br />
and for using the gritty, close-to-home themes to<br />
stimulate debate.<br />
Further support?<br />
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British Book <strong>New</strong>s<br />
Available in Hardback<br />
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