Macbeth is one of a series of introductions to Shakespeare's key plays. It is perfect as an introduction before studying the play, for revision purposes and for reluctant and struggling readers. The play is retold as a straightforward, pacey narrative in chapter-book format. The book use the present tense and lots of dialogue (in present-day English) to recreate the experience of actually watching the play. The text follow the original play faithfully so students can acquire an accurate understanding of the action and plot. Memorable quotations from the original text (in italics) make this book perfect for exam crammers! Plus each book includes visual information to help pupils get to grips with the plot, the key characters and their important relationships in the play. The stories are all presented in the period of the play but with modern day language. Written by award winning writers Barbara Catchpole and Stephen Rickard, these are really accessible books. They are perfect for getting all pupils, whatever their ability, comfortable with each play before they go on to study it in its original form and a great all round introduction to Shakespeare. "Staying impressively faithful to the plot and structure of the original text, the narrative voice is fresh, modern and colloquial; yet still includes key quotations (highlighted in italics), as well as clear analysis of themes, character, and rhetorical devices. Most of all, though, this is a book that absolutely captures the excitement, intrigue and sheer visceral power of Shakespeare's tragedy as performed live on stage, which is an impressive feat by anyone's standards. Not only will it prepare teens for GCSE study. it will ensure they start out by realising that Macbeth is, above all, one hell of a story. " Teach Secondary

This great value pack contains 20 titles with Accelerated Reader Levels MY between 3.5 and 3.9. It contains one of each title and is designed for reluctant and struggling readers at Secondary level. Titles in the pack are taken from the following Ransom series Pig, Trailblazers, Neutron Stars, Spook Squad, Toxic, Starchasers and Zone 13. All the books are age appropriate and cover a wide range of topics of general interest. The packis predominately fiction but does include some fiction.

PIG hates needles, so he uses all his wiley skills to avoid the school vaccinations. But then comes a history lesson on the Black Death. Terrified, Pig decides he must have that injection - and quickly! Sadly he discovers that it's not going to be that easy. Surely now it's only a matter of time before he becomes a victim of the plague. Boys love PIG! Peter Ian Green has another hilarious adventure in this book, one of the bestselling series 'PIG' by Barbara Catchpole. Coupled with fantastic black-and-white illustrations and an easy-to-read diary format, the laugh-out-loud humour and tale of friendship will appeal to all readers.

Pig has a huge brown plastic dog poo. (Not one of those long ones that go dry. This one's a curly brown, wet-looking poo, with a little black plastic fly on it.) Pig thinks the poo talks to him (he doesn't think that really - he's not bonkers or anything). But he does miss his poo lots when he loses it - mainly because it reminds him of his dad. Boys love PIG! Peter Ian Green has another hilarious adventure in this book, one of the bestselling series 'PIG' by Barbara Catchpole. Coupled with fantastic black-and-white illustrations and an easy-to-read diary format, the laugh-out-loud humour and tale of friendship will appeal to all readers.

Romeo and Juliet is one of a series of introductions to Shakespeare's key plays. It is perfect as an introduction before studying the play, for revision purposes and for reluctant and struggling readers. The play is retold as a straightforward, pacey narrative in chapter-book format. The book use the present tense and lots of dialogue (in present-day English) to recreate the experience of actually watching the play. The text follow the original plays faithfully so students can acquire an accurate understanding of the action and plot. Memorable quotations from the original text (in italics) make this book perfect for exam crammers! Plus each book includes visual information to help pupils get to grips with the plot, the key characters and their important relationships in the play. The stories are all presented in the period of the play but with modern day language. Written by award winning writers Barbara Catchpole and Stephen Rickard, these are really accessible books. They are perfect for getting all pupils, whatever their ability, comfortable with each play before they go on to study it in its original form and a great all round introduction to Shakespeare.

Pig has a huge brown plastic dog poo. (Not one of those long ones that go dry. This one's a curly brown, wet-looking poo, with a little black plastic fly on it.) Pig thinks the poo talks to him (he doesn't think that really - he's not bonkers or anything). But he does miss his poo lots when he loses it - mainly because it reminds him of his dad. Boys love PIG! Peter Ian Green has another hilarious adventure in this book, one of the bestselling series 'PIG' by Barbara Catchpole. Coupled with fantastic black-and-white illustrations and an easy-to-read diary format, the laugh-out-loud humour and tale of friendship will appeal to all readers.

PIG decides his mum needs a boyfriend, so he sets her up on the Kissy Kissy Online Dating Site ('Meet your hero - hundreds of hunky men free for the online single lady.') When PIG invites two of them to meet his mum (at the same time) things go from bad to even worse than that. Do people on online dating sites always tell lies? Boys love PIG! Peter Ian Green has another hilarious adventure in this book, one of the bestselling series 'PIG' by Barbara Catchpole. Coupled with fantastic black-and-white illustrations and an easy-to-read diary format, the laugh-out-loud humour and tale of friendship will appeal to all readers.

When Raj spots Bob (Pig's mum's boyfriend) kissing Tish (the one with the pink hair) outside the spare gold shop, Raj has to tell Pig. Pig is outraged. How could Bob do this to Mum? So Pig hatches a cunning plan to get rid of Bob the Love Rat. After all, Pig is good at sorting out grown-ups' lives. Boys love PIG! Peter Ian Green has another hilarious adventure in this book, one of the bestselling series 'PIG' by Barbara Catchpole. Coupled with fantastic black-and-white illustrations and an easy-to-read diary format, the laugh-out-loud humour and tale of friendship will appeal to all readers.

Harry the hamster is ill, so Mum and Pig take him to the vet. That cost thirty quid. Then Suki gets her hand stuck down the drain on the High Street and they have to call the fire brigade to get her out. Suki's (ex)-boyfriend Kim and fireman Sam (I know!) end up in a fight. Then Gran gets herself arrested whilst skateboarding and she loses her teeth. Somebody has lost Vampire Baby, too. What a finale! It's almost like on TV! Boys love PIG! Peter Ian Green has another hilarious adventure in this book, one of the bestselling series 'PIG' by Barbara Catchpole. Coupled with fantastic black-and-white illustrations and an easy-to-read diary format, the laugh-out-loud humour and tale of friendship will appeal to all readers.

Pig and his best friend Raj decide that they don't actually need to go to school every day. Going for just a few days in a week is enough. So one day they take the day off school and decide to watch the news being filmed in the High Street. They are lucky enough to be interviewed by the News Lady, who promises that Pig and Raj's skiving off school will be 'their little secret'. Everybody lies. Boys love PIG! Peter Ian Green has another hilarious adventure in this book, one of the bestselling series 'PIG' by Barbara Catchpole. Coupled with fantastic black-and-white illustrations and an easy-to-read diary format, the laugh-out-loud humour and tale of friendship will appeal to all readers.

Pig's class at school all have to bring in something they don't use anymore. It all starts well (even though Pig takes in his mum's wedding ring), but then things go wrong and Pig accuses Raj of something terrible. Raj is very upset and calls Pig a blue baboon's bottom. That's Raj's worst insult. Can Pig do anything to restore his friendship with Raj? Boys love PIG! Peter Ian Green has another hilarious adventure in this book, one of the bestselling series 'PIG' by Barbara Catchpole. Coupled with fantastic black-and-white illustrations and an easy-to-read diary format, the laugh-out-loud humour and tale of friendship will appeal to all readers.

When Pig's best friend Raj is suddenly taken ill, Pig has to get him to hospital very, very quickly. With the help of a wheelbarrow, an empty bus lane and a few friends and family, Pig manages it - and saves Raj from a fate worse than death (OK, not really). For once Pig does it all right, and even the doctors call him Superpig! Boys love PIG! Peter Ian Green has another hilarious adventure in this book, one of the bestselling series 'PIG' by Barbara Catchpole. Coupled with fantastic black-and-white illustrations and an easy-to-read diary format, the laugh-out-loud humour and tale of friendship will appeal to all readers.

A Midsummer Night's Dream is one of a series of introductions to Shakespeares key plays. It is perfect as an introduction before studying the play, for revision purposes and for reluctant and struggling readers. The play is retold as a straightforward, pacey narrative in chapter-book format. The book use the present tense and lots of dialogue (in present-day English) to recrate the experience of actually watching the play. The text follow the original plays faithfully so students can acquire an accurate understanding of the action and plot. Memorable quotations from the original text (in italics) make this book perfect for exam crammers! Plus each book includes visual information to help pupils get to grips with the plot, the key characters and their important relationships in the play. The stories are all presented in the period of the play but with modern day language. Written by award winning writers Barbara Catchpole and Stephen Rickard, these are really accessible books. They are perfect for getting all pupils, whatever their ability, comfortable with each play before they go on to study it in its original form and a great all round introduction to Shakespeare.

Pig is fed up with getting picked on - especially by that Dean Gosnall, who always wants a fight. Pig decides that it's his red hair that's the problem, so Gran and Suki decide to help him change its colour. But it goes a bit wrong and Pig ends up with bright, radioactive orange hair. How can Pig go to school with dayglo orange hair? The teachers will ban him and Goofy Gosnall will beat him up. Can Pig's mum come to the rescue? Boys love PIG! Peter Ian Green has another hilarious adventure in this book, one of the bestselling series 'PIG' by Barbara Catchpole. Coupled with fantastic black-and-white illustrations and an easy-to-read diary format, the laugh-out-loud humour and tale of friendship will appeal to all readers.

Feely decides to stand for election as class 'Prime Minister'. But Saffron wants to be Prime Minister too, so they have an election campaign and the class must vote. Can Feely beat Saffron and become the first Prime Minister of Class 7 Rosa Parks? Girls love Feely! Phoebe Dorcas Tonks - Feely to everyone but her teacher - has another hilarious adventure in this book, one of the 'Feely' series by Barbara Catchpole, author of the best-selling 'PIG' books. Coupled with fantastic black-and-white illustrations and an easy-to-read diary format, the laugh-out-loud humour and merciless honesty will appeal to all readers.

Feely's mum is a counsellor - she helps sad and angry people with their problems. When she takes Feely to work one day (it's 'take your daughter to work day'), Feely decides that she could do this job just as well as her mum. Girls love Feely! Phoebe Dorcas Tonks - Feely to everyone but her teacher - has another hilarious adventure in this book, one of the 'Feely' series by Barbara Catchpole, author of the best-selling 'PIG' books. Coupled with fantastic black-and-white illustrations and an easy-to-read diary format, the laugh-out-loud humour and merciless honesty will appeal to all readers.

The 'Pink Click' are the meanest girls in school. They can't stand Feely. But that's OK - Feely can't stand them, either. When Feely starts a diary, she hopes it will do some magic for her and get back at The Pink Click - especially that Saffron! Girls love Feely! Phoebe Dorcas Tonks Feely to everyone but her teacher - has another hilarious adventure in this book, one of the 'Feely' series by Barbara Catchpole, athor of the best-selling 'PIG' books. Coupled with fantastic black-and-white illustrations and an easy-to-read diary format, the laugh-out-loud humour and merciless honesty will appeal to all readers.

Feely gets to look after the class goldfish, Henry the First, during half term. The Pink Click say it's a mistake and Feely shouldn't be allowed to look after any animal - not ever! Will Saffron be proved right? Girls love Feely! Phoebe Dorcas Tonks - Feely to everyone but her teacher - has another hilarious adventure in this book, one of the 'Feely' series by Barbara Catchpole, author of the best-selling 'PIG' books. Coupled with fantastic black-and-white illustrations and an easy-to-read diary format, the laugh-out-loud humour and merciless honesty will appeal to all readers.

Feely has to write a school report about life in the 1950s. Everyone starts to interview their grannies and grandads, but Feely doesn't have her own old person to talk to. So how can she write a report that's going to be better than Saffron's? Feely needs to talk to somebody who was alive in the 1950s. Mrs Baggot might help - but only if she can stop being so crabby. Girls love Feely! Phoebe Dorcas Tonks - Feely to everyone but her teacher - has another hilarious adventure in this book, one of the 'Feely' series by Barbara Catchpole, author of the best-selling 'PIG' books. Coupled with fantastic black-and-white illustrations and an easy-to-read diary format, the laugh-out-loud humour and merciless honesty will appeal to all readers.

Hamlet is one of a series of introductions to Shakespeares key plays. It is perfect as an introduction before studying the play, for revision purposes and for reluctant and struggling readers. The play is retold as a straightforward, pacey narrative in chapter-book format. The book use the present tense and lots of dialogue (in present-day English) to recreate the experience of actually watching the play. The text follow the original plays faithfully so students can acquire an accurate understanding of the action and plot. Memorable quotations from the original text (in italics) make this book perfect for exam crammers! Plus each book includes visual information to help pupils get to grips with the plot, the key characters and their important relationships in the play. The stories are all presented in the period of the play but with modern day language. Written by three award winning writers Barbara Catchpole and Stephen Rickard, these are really accessible books. They are perfect for getting all pupils, whatever their ability, comfortable with each play before they go on to study it in its original form and a great all round introduction to Shakespeare.

Feely's parents are acting very strangely. They are even talking to each other (not just saying stuff). What is going on? Hannah says they must be getting a divorce. Can that be true? What would happen to Feely? (And Ollie too, but mainly Feely). Girls love Feely! Phoebe Dorcas Tonks - Feely to everyone but her teacher - has another hilarious adventure in this book, one of the 'Feely' series by Barbara Catchpole, author of the best-selling 'PIG' books. Coupled with fantastic black-and-white illustrations and an easy-to-read diary format, the laugh-out-loud humour and merciless honesty will appeal to all readers.

PIG wants to be in the school football team, but there is one problem: he is completely rubbish at football. Sir says Pig will never ever play for the team. When the team's goalie is injured (looking at the other school's cheerleaders and walking at the same time), Pig ends up in goal. How can he possibly save the day? Boys love PIG! Peter Ian Green has another hilarious adventure in this book, one of the bestselling series 'PIG' by Barbara Catchpole. Coupled with fantastic black-and-white illustrations and an easy-to-read diary format, the laugh-out-loud humour and tale of friendship will appeal to all readers.

There's a school quiz against The Academy (the posh school) and it's going to be on TV! Raj persuades Pig to join the team, but the problem is that Pig doesn't know anything. So on the big day it's Raj's team (with Pig) against the best of The Academy. Will The Academy really win a gazillion to nil? Boys love PIG! Peter Ian Green has another hilarious adventure in this book, one of the bestselling series 'PIG' by Barbara Catchpole. Coupled with fantastic black-and-white illustrations and an easy-to-read diary format, the laugh-out-loud humour and tale of friendship will appeal to all readers.

When Pig's mum tells him that she wants to get a divorce from his dad, Pig gets really angry. At school he misbehaves in class (saying 'Baa baa' to Mr. Lamb!) and has to stay in after school. It's a clever detention though, and it makes Pig think again about Mum, Bob and their feelings. Boys love PIG! Peter Ian Green has another hilarious adventure in this book, one of the bestselling series 'PIG' by Barbara Catchpole. Coupled with fantastic black-and-white illustrations and an easy-to-read diary format, the laugh-out-loud humour and tale of friendship will appeal to all readers.

Pig has never really had a pet - except for a hamster, nits and a verruca called Vincent. So when Pig and Raj find a cat tied up in a shopping bag, Pig decides to keep it - even though it is probably the ugliest cat in the whole universe. Pig calls it Baldy Cat and tries to keep it a secret from his mum. He knows they can't afford a cat. Of course, Mum discovers Baldy Cat ('Is that a cat?') and a solution needs to be found. Will Pig and Baldy Cat end up best mates? Boys love PIG! Peter Ian Green has another hilarious adventure in this book, one of the bestselling series 'PIG' by Barbara Catchpole. Coupled with fantastic black-and-white illustrations and an easy-to-read diary format, the laugh-out-loud humour and tale of friendship will appeal to all readers.