Short texts
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An expatriate parcel of nostalgia - Jonathan Owen
Catastrophe - Joan Rosier-Jones
Little Brother - Bruce Holland Rogers
Responsibility:
Big Brother, Little Sister - Witi Ihimaera
The fat boy - Owen Marshall
Growing up:
Big Brother, Little Sister - Witi Ihimaera
Examination day - Henry Slesar
Her first ball - Katherine Mansfield
His first ball - Witi Ihimaera
Science Fiction/Dystopia:
Examination day - Henry Slesar
Little Brother - Bruce Holland Rogers
The fun they had - Isaac Asimov
All summer in a day - Ray Bradbury
Teenage:
The Jam - Henry Slesar
The last spin - Evan Hunter
On the sidewalk, bleeding - Evan Hunter
One risk too many - Anonymous
Other:
Lamb to the slaughter - Roald Dahl
The sniper - Liam O'Flaherty
Soesa - Graeme Lay
Victim - Pauline Catwright
Butterflies - Patricia Grace
An expatriate parcel of nostalgia - Jonathan Owen
Catastrophe - Joan Rosier-Jones
Little Brother - Bruce Holland Rogers
Responsibility:
Big Brother, Little Sister - Witi Ihimaera
The fat boy - Owen Marshall
Growing up:
Big Brother, Little Sister - Witi Ihimaera
Examination day - Henry Slesar
Her first ball - Katherine Mansfield
His first ball - Witi Ihimaera
Science Fiction/Dystopia:
Examination day - Henry Slesar
Little Brother - Bruce Holland Rogers
The fun they had - Isaac Asimov
All summer in a day - Ray Bradbury
Teenage:
The Jam - Henry Slesar
The last spin - Evan Hunter
On the sidewalk, bleeding - Evan Hunter
One risk too many - Anonymous
Other:
Lamb to the slaughter - Roald Dahl
The sniper - Liam O'Flaherty
Soesa - Graeme Lay
Victim - Pauline Catwright
Butterflies - Patricia Grace
Texts studied in schools
Texts studied in schools:
Year 9/10
Juggling for Mandarins - V. M. Jones
The beginning of the tournament - Witi Ihimaera
The boy in striped pyjamas - John Boyne
The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton
Year 11
Montana 1948 - Larry Watson
A respectable girl - Fleur Beale
Hunger games - Suzanne Collins
WW1 Poetry - various, Owen, Sassoon
Tomorrow when the war began - John Marsden
The curious incident of the dog in the night-time - Mark Haddon
A game of cards - Witi Ihimaera
The washerwoman - Witi Ihimaera (?)
I am not Esther - Fleur Beale
The feed - M. T. Andersen
Of mice and men - John Steinbeck
Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger
The fatman - Maurice Gee
Animal farm - George Orwell
A cup of tea - Katherine Mansfield
His first ball - Witi Ihimaera
Her first ball - Katherine Mansfield
Rules of the game - Amy Tan
Sweet 16 and never been kissed - Idoya Munn
Whale Rider - Witi Ihimaera
Unwind - Neal Schusterman
The Body - Stephen King (Stand by me)
Year 12
Looking for Alaska - John Green
The giver - Lois Lowry
My sister's keeper - Jodi Picoult
Love poetry - Karlo Mila
Twelfth night - Shakespeare
Ace of Diamonds Gang - Wilfred Owen
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
There will come soft rains - Ray Bradbury
Lord of the flies - William Golding
The secret life of bees - Sue Monk Kidd
Romeo and Juliet - Shakespeare
Telephone call - Wolesoyinka
Macbeth - Shakespeare
The secret life of Walter Mitty - James Thuber
Tuesdays with Morrie - Mitch Albom
Things fall apart - Chinua Achebe
Year 13
King Lear - Shakespeare
The book thief - Marcus Zusak
The great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Year 9/10
Juggling for Mandarins - V. M. Jones
The beginning of the tournament - Witi Ihimaera
The boy in striped pyjamas - John Boyne
The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton
Year 11
Montana 1948 - Larry Watson
A respectable girl - Fleur Beale
Hunger games - Suzanne Collins
WW1 Poetry - various, Owen, Sassoon
Tomorrow when the war began - John Marsden
The curious incident of the dog in the night-time - Mark Haddon
A game of cards - Witi Ihimaera
The washerwoman - Witi Ihimaera (?)
I am not Esther - Fleur Beale
The feed - M. T. Andersen
Of mice and men - John Steinbeck
Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger
The fatman - Maurice Gee
Animal farm - George Orwell
A cup of tea - Katherine Mansfield
His first ball - Witi Ihimaera
Her first ball - Katherine Mansfield
Rules of the game - Amy Tan
Sweet 16 and never been kissed - Idoya Munn
Whale Rider - Witi Ihimaera
Unwind - Neal Schusterman
The Body - Stephen King (Stand by me)
Year 12
Looking for Alaska - John Green
The giver - Lois Lowry
My sister's keeper - Jodi Picoult
Love poetry - Karlo Mila
Twelfth night - Shakespeare
Ace of Diamonds Gang - Wilfred Owen
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
There will come soft rains - Ray Bradbury
Lord of the flies - William Golding
The secret life of bees - Sue Monk Kidd
Romeo and Juliet - Shakespeare
Telephone call - Wolesoyinka
Macbeth - Shakespeare
The secret life of Walter Mitty - James Thuber
Tuesdays with Morrie - Mitch Albom
Things fall apart - Chinua Achebe
Year 13
King Lear - Shakespeare
The book thief - Marcus Zusak
The great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald