Modern Prose Texts
If you’re on the lookout for new and exciting modern prose texts, explore our selection below. These recommended reading texts are carefully chosen to inspire and engage your students. Each title comes fitted with a protective plastic jacket to ensure durability.
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Animal Farm
'All animals are equal - but some are more equal than others'
First published on August 17th 1945 by George Orwell, being refused by publisher after publisher, his simple, tragic fable has since become a world-famous classic. Animal farm is the ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 120
- MBE Code : 107
Animal Farm
All animals are equal - but some are more equal than others.
When the ill-treated animals of Manor Farm rebel against their master Mr Jones and take over the farm, they start to believe in a life of freedom and equality for all. But slowly, the ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 116
- MBE Code : 430
Animal Farm – Annotation Edition
Scholastic Annotation Editions come with extra wide margins and double spaced lines, they are perfect for your annotations.
They include:
Large spaces between lines and large outer margins, perfect for highlighting and note-taking.
Pages ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 192
- MBE Code : 508
Anita & Me
The debut novel from the award-winning screenwriter of Bhaji on the Beach. The title of Anita & Me reflects on the character of nine-year-old Meena, growing up in the only Punjabi family, surrounded in the Black Country mining village of ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 336
- MBE Code : 205
AQA Study Guide: GCSE 9-1 Animal Farm
New combined revision and practice books for Animal Farm to get you top marks in your GCSE English Literature essays. Introducing our study guides, specifically written to support your revision for the closed book AQA GCSE English Literature ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 94
- MBE Code : 300
AQA Study Guide: GCSE 9-1 Lord Of The Flies
New combined revision and practice books for Lord of theFlies to get you top marks in your GCSE English Literature essays. Introducing our study guides, specifically written to support your revision for the closed book AQA GCSE English Literature ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 94
- MBE Code : 311
Boys Don’t Cry
You're waiting for the postman - he's bringing your A level results. University, a career as a journalist - a glittering future lies ahead. But when the doorbell rings it's your old girlfriend; and she's carrying a baby. Your baby.You're happy to ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 320
- MBE Code : 518
Coram Boy
Defined The Whitebread 2010 Book of the Year. Coram Boy is a haunting, yet captivating work of historical fiction for children. And will especially be loved towards fans of The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas and Goodnight Mr Tom. Plus, a great read for ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 368
- MBE Code : 244
Heroes
Heroes, a widely known book that is used within many schools across the country. Where we provide you with every text inside of a protective plastic wallet, for the assurance of longer life ware. All available to you in as little as the next day, at ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 144
- MBE Code : 114
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou's debut memoir has become an classic beloved worldwide. Her six volumes of autobiography are a testament to the her talents and resilience.. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty. As a Black woman she has known discrimination and ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 320
- MBE Code : 374
Lord Of The Flies
Lord of The Flies won a Nobel Prize For Literature. This paperback is a staple of many secondary school children's backpack. MBE Books supply plastic jackets free of charge which are already fitted to the books. Next day delivery and high quality ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 226
- MBE Code : 108
My Name Is Leon
It's 1981, a year of riots and royal weddings. The Dukes of Hazzard is on TV. Curly Wurlys are in the shops. And trying to find a place in it all is nine-year-old Leon. He and his little brother Jake have gone to live with Maureen. They've lost one...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 288
- MBE Code : 519
Never Let Me Go
Described to be one of the most acclaimed novels to be published in recent years.
Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students who are growing up in an ominous, skewed version of contemporary England.
All narrated by “Kathy”, ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 304
- MBE Code : 162
Of Mice And Men
Drifters in search of work, George and his childlike friend Lennie, have nothing in the world except the clothes on their back - and a dream that one day they will have some land of their own. Eventually they find work on a ranch in California's ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 122
- MBE Code : 109
Pigeon English
Eleven-year-old Harrison Opoku, the second best runner in Year 7, races through his new life in England with his personalised trainers - the Adidas stripes drawn on with marker pen - blissfully unaware of the very real threat around him. ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 272
- MBE Code : 138
The Color Purple
Set in the deep American South between the wars, THE COLOR PURPLE is the classic tale of Celie, a young black girl born into poverty and segregation. Raped repeatedly by the man she calls 'father', she has two children taken away from her, is ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 270
- MBE Code : 460
The Handmaids Tale
Offred, Fred Waterford being her assigned name, where Offred means “Of Fred”, due to herself only having one function… To breed.
She is a Handmaid, living the Republican of Gilead, which is a religious totalitarian state in what was formerly...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 324
- MBE Code : 232
The Woman In Black
Author Kipps is a junior solicitor, who is summoned to attend the funeral of Mrs Alice Drablow, the sole inhabitant of the Eel Marsh House.
This house stands towards the end of a causeway, that is wreathed in multitudes of fog and mystery… But ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 200
- MBE Code : 118
Things Fall Apart
Okonkwo is the greatest wrestler and warrior alive, and his fame spreads throughout West Africa like a bush-fire in the harmattan. But when he accidentally kills a clansman, things begin to fall apart. Then Okonkwo returns from exile to find ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 208
- MBE Code : 617
To Kill A Mockingbird
Lawyer Atticus Finch gives his advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel, where a black man was charged with the rape of a white girl.
Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 320
- MBE Code : 124