Lauri Kubuitsile

Zerstreuung

Alison Sage

Jonathan Emmett

Anita Ganeri

Vivian French

Ian Whybrow

Gabrielle Pritchard

Kathryn Harper

Tanya Landman

Catherine Chambers

Chris Oxlade

Lynne Rickards

Tom Bradman

Jon Hughes

Jim Carrington

Andy Belcher

Peter Millett, M.D.

Claire Llwewllyn

Schoular Anderson

Jonathan And Angela Scott

Catherine Bowley

Endorsed for reading by Cambridge Assessment International Education, Cambridge Reading Adventures is our international primary reading scheme.

Cambridge Reading Adventures: Teacher Pack 2. Green, Orange, Turquoise, Purple, Gold and White Bands

Our international primary reading series will help your learners become confident, independent readers. What are stars made of? When can we see stars? Find out in this book. Yellow Band books place more emphasis on learners' understanding through reading and less use of illustrations to show meaning. Longer sentences include a wider range of vocabulary while repetition is used for dramatic effect rather than to build high-frequency vocabulary. Contains full teaching support including learning outcomes, curriculum links and follow-up activities.

Cambridge Reading Adventures Stars Yellow Band

Kubuitsile’s deeply moving novel follows the fate of two young women, both caught in the jarring realities of colonial wars waged across southern Africa at the turn of the twentieth century. With a flair for depicting the human spirit and its resilience, she writes of Tjipuka, a victim of German deception and atrocities against the Herero people living in what is now Namibia, and Riette, the misfortunate daughter of a Boer farmer caught in the British-Boer conflict in Transvaal, now northeastern South Africa. Tjipuka, the Herero woman, marries and has a child with the love of her life. Thinking German soldiers have killed her husband, she flees with her son to the desert, to get away from the Germans. Riette, a bright Boer woman, has passed her nursing exams and plans to escape the strict rules of her family, until her father forces her to marry an older man with two daughters. When her husband is taken captive by the British, she resolves to save herself and her stepchildren from being caught in the crosshairs of civil war. Through Kubuitsile’s evocative, sensitive writing, we become one with these women as they are forced to make impossible choices.

The Scattering

It is 1871 and Nthebolang and her mother must flee their home: her father has been accused of witchcraft and sentenced to death. For months they walk, sleeping in the open, living off the veld, until they are offered shelter in Ntsweng in the kingdom of Kgosi Sechele I. It is there, years later, that Nthebolang meets Beatrice, the wife of a cruel English missionary, and a woman who has had her share of perilous escapes. As a young girl, this light-skinned Koranna woman was mistaken for a kidnapped white child and bundled off to a mission station. After all this time, Beatrice still carries her father’s gift, a hunting knife, concealed under her clothing. But things are not settled in Ntsweng, where traditional beliefs and Christianity clash. The turmoil of Nthebolang’s childhood repeats itself when her beloved Motsumi is suspected of witchcraft. Will she be able to save him, or will he meet the same fate as her father? And is Beatrice a friend in whom she should place her trust? Lauri Kubuitsile’s But Deliver Us from Evil is at once a sensitive human drama and a chilling tale of evil power plays. Bringing to life a little-known yet fascinating pocket of Botswana’s colonial history, it is a story of struggle and belief, hatred and love.

But Deliver Us from Evil

Kubuitsile's deeply moving novel follows the fate of two young women, both caught in the jarring realities of colonial wars waged across southern Africa at the turn of the twentieth century. With a flair for depicting the human spirit and its resilience, she writes of Tjipuka, a victim of German deception and atrocities against the Herero people living in what is now Namibia, and Riette, the misfortunate daughter of a Boer farmer caught in the British-Boer conflict in Transvaal, now northeastern South Africa.Tjipuka, the Herero woman, marries and has a child with the love of her life. Thinking German soldiers have killed her husband, she flees with her son to the desert, to get away from the Germans. Riette, a bright Boer woman, has passed her nursing exams and plans to escape the strict rules of her family, until her father forces her to marry an older man with two daughters. When her husband is taken captive by the British, she resolves to save herself and her stepchildren from being caught in the crosshairs of civil war. Through Kubuitsile's evocative, sensitive writing, we become one with these women as they are forced to make impossible choices.

Joanne Hichens

The bed, dressed in hand sewn quilt or threadbare blanket, may in and of itself be memorable, but it is what happens in the bed the sex and lovemaking, the dreams, the reading, the nightmares, the rest, giving birth and dying which give bed special meaning. Whether a bed is shared with a book, a child, a pet or a partner, whether lovers lie in ecstasy or indifference, whether bed relates to intimacy or betrayal, it is memories and recollections of bed, in whatever form, which have triggered the writing of these thirty stories by women from southern Africa. Well known writers Joanne Fedler, Sarah Lotz, Arja Salafranca, Rosemund Handler and Liesl Jobson will delight, but you will discover here new writers from Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Malawi, Namibia and Zambia, each with a unique voice as they cast light on the intimate lives of women living in this part of the world and the possibilities that are both available to and denied them. The BED BOOK of short stories some quirky and tender, others traumatic or macabre is the perfect companion to take to bed with you, to keep you reading long into the night.

The Bed Book of Short Stories

In this play script, Sol and Lonny are new to the school. They are behaving very strangely, can Ava work out why? Books in the Wayfarers strand are for learners who can read a range of texts accurately and fluently. Wayfarers titles require learners to read beyond what's on the page, inferring characters' feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions. There is more emphasis on learners' understanding through reading and less use of illustrations to show meaning. Repetition is used for dramatic effect rather than to build high-frequency vocabulary. Contains teaching support including learning outcomes, curriculum links and follow-up activities.

The Mystery of Sol 2 Wayfarers

The bed, dressed in hand sewn quilt or threadbare blanket, may in and of itself be memorable, but it is what happens in the bed - the sex and lovemaking, the dreams, the reading, the nightmares, the rest, giving birth and dying - which give 'bed' special meaning. Whether a bed is shared with a book, a child, a pet or a partner, whether lovers lie in ecstasy or indifference, whether 'bed' relates to intimacy or betrayal, it is memories and recollections of 'bed', in whatever form, which have triggered the writing of these thirty stories by women from southern Africa. Well known writers Joanne Fedler, Sarah Lotz, Arja Salafranca, Rosemund Handler and Liesl Jobson will delight, but you will discover here new writers from Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Malawi, Namibia and Zambia, each with a unique voice as they cast light on the intimate lives of women living in this part of the world and the possibilities that are both available to and denied them. The BED BOOK of short stories - some quirky and tender, others traumatic or macabre - is the perfect companion to take to bed with you, to keep you reading long into the night.

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