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A cheap volume but great poetry! Here are some of the most loved poems in the English language (dating from the Middle Ages to the 20th century), chosen not merely for their popularity, but for their literary quality as well. Editor: Philip Smith. (101 pages) Level: Gymnasiet etc.

Marvell: To His Coy Mistress
Wordsworth: I wandered Lonely as a Cloud
Shelley: Ode to the West Wind
Poe: The Raven
Tennyson: The Charge of the Light brigade
Dickinson: This Is My Letter to the World
Yeats: When You Are Old
Frost: The Road Not Taken
Thomas: Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
... and many others

At the start of his school holidays, Danny Delaney is looking forward to a trouble-free summer. But when his mother returns home one afternoon, flanked by two policemen, he knows that something terrible has happened. Mrs Delaney has accidentally hit a small boy with her car. The boy is in a coma at the local hospital and nobody knows if he will ever wake up. Consumed by guilt, Danny's mother closes herself off, while Danny and his father are left to pick up the pieces of their fractured family. A funny, touching and poignant story — told from the point of view of a twelve-year-old boy, The Dare is a compelling book about how one moment can change a family forever. Author: John Boyne (“The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas”). (103 pages)
Level: C-D/9.-10.kl (1.g/1.HF)

How would a creature limited to two dimensions be able to grasp the possibility of a third? Edwin Abbott's science fiction/mathematical romance and satire from 1884 explores this question in the experiences of his protagonist, A Square, whose linear world is invaded by an emissary Sphere bringing the gospel of the third dimension on the eve of the new millennium. Part geometry lesson, part social satire, this classic work exposed Abbott's Victorian readers to the then-radical idea of a fourth dimension - preparing them for Einstein's theories of relativity and raised timeless questions about the limits of our perception and knowledge. Editor: Philip Smith. (96 pages)
Level: 2nd/3rd Year of Gymnasium / samarbejde med matematik

There is no hell like a man-made one ... It is an island that doesn't appear on any maps. A secret location where classified experiments have been conducted. Experiments that have gone terribly wrong ... When all contact with this mystery island is inexplicably lost, four crack special-forces units are brought in, their mission being to land on Hell Island and discover what has happened. Nothing can prepare them for what they find there. You could say they've just entered hell. Only that would be too gentle.Author: Matthew Reilly. (115 pages)
Level:  C-D/9.-10.kl

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It's a hot summer afternoon. Tension is in the air. A gang of youths on bikes gathers outside a chip shop. A teenage boy is stabbed and left bleeding on the street. The boy's mother wonders how this could have happened to her son. She is full of questions, but when the answers lie so close to home, are they really what she wants to hear? (Contains some slang.) Author: Bernardine Evaristo. (81 pages)
Level:  C-D/9.-10.kl

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Mother-of-two Rosemary is a woman under pressure. With two difficult teenaged children, a distant husband and a busy job, the stress is mounting. The loss of her internet connection pushes her over the edge. After waiting a month and two failed attempts to fix the problem, a third repair man arrives. When he too says he can't get her back online, his incompetence forces Rosemary to take drastic action. The repair man realises that Rosemary is not as naive as she first appears. She is a woman with a secret and is capable of causing him harm. Loose Connections is a darkly humorous story about how computers can distance people from the real world around them. Author: Rachel Trezise. (81 pages)
Level:   C-D/9.-10.kl

Sir Walter Scott's classic novel is set in the north of England and Scotland in the years before, during and after the first Jacobite rising in 1715. Rob Roy is a swashbuckling chieftain of the clan MacGregor who is forced to become an outlaw for his alleged support of the Jacobite cause. (400 pages)
Level: A+/Linjefag

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Short Stories from the Nineteenth Century is a collection of classic stories, featuring tales by Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, R.L. Stevenson, Bram Stoker, Anthony Trollope, Oscar Wilde, H.G.Wells and many others. Editor: David Stuart Davies. (240 pages)
Level: 2nd/3rd Year of Gymnasium

Molly Sullivan said that the new baby was a little star. She was no trouble at all and she was always smiling ... so she became known as Star and no one remembered that her name was Oona. Star Sullivan just wanted everyone to be happy — her father to stop gambling, her mother not to work so hard, her brother to stay out of trouble, her sister to stop worrying about every little thing she ate. Then the Hale family moved in next door, and from the moment Star saw 23-year-old Laddy Hale, everything began to change — until Star was no longer the sweet, thoughtful girl everyone loved and no one worried about ... Author: Maeve Binchy. (106 pages)
Level:  C-D/9.-10.kl (1.g/1.HF)

Listen To An Extract From Star Sullivan
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To celebrate the launch of Quick Reads in 2006, "The Sun" ran a short story competition called 'Get Britain Reading' in order to find the hidden talent among its ten million readers. There was a remarkable response, with hilarious, moving and powerful stories pouring in. The Sun Book of Short Stories contains a selection of the winning entries. Short and highly accessible stories. (95 pages)
Level: C