The class in room 207 loves to misbehave. Whether it’s flying spitballs or paper planes or disrespecting their teacher Miss Nelson, anything goes. But when Miss Nelson doesn’t show up to class one day and the evil substitute teacher Miss Viola Swamp takes her place, the kids start regretting their past behaviour.
A novel about the ups and downs of school, puberty and everything in between. This illustrated children’s novel tells the story of a boy named Greg Heffley and his attempts at becoming the ‘popular kid’ in middle school. From failed Geography tests to his best friend getting more attention from girls than him, there are […]
A gripping dystopian story about security, freedom, and the willingness to buy one with the other. Marcus is a 17-year-old tech-savvy student in San Francisco. When he is not breaking his school’s security measures, he spends his free time playing augmented reality games with his friends. It is not his fault that the police find […]
A story about the readiness to help, false suspicion and the American ‘war on terror’. This novel is based on the true story of Abdulrahman Zeitoun and his family: When hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans, Abdulrahman was one of the few people who refused to leave. Traveling the sunken city by canoe, he rescues other […]
This novel is a kick-off to the dystopian trilogy about a society in which love is perceived as a disease. Consequently, young people undergo an operation known as ‘the Cure’ once they turn 18. But when Lena’s ‘Cure’ is drawing near, she meets Alex – he is one of the so called invalids, outcasts who […]
This historical graphic novel revolves around racism, civil disobedience and the Civil Rights movement in the USA: Rosa Parks is arrested in 1955 for refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus and not moving to the section designated for black people, all of which will fuel the Civil Rights movement. This graphic […]
In this novel between fundamentalism and family, between loyalty and disobedience, 12-year-old Martha is brought up by strictly religious parents, their rules shaping Martha’s life: no TV and no pop music among other things. Most importanty though, Martha must not invite somebody else home. Too big is her parents’ fear that Abomination, their shameful secret, […]
A shocking story of sexual assult and trauma: Melinda is an outcast at her high school. She busted a party a while ago by calling the cops but now she refuses to publicly give a reason. Shunned by her peers, she almost stops speaking entirely – if nobody listens, what is the point in speaking? […]
An epistolary novel about bullying, violence and school shootings. When Brendan and Gary decide they had enough of humiliation at their high school, especially by the hands of the popular football players, they make plans to take revenge on their peers. Their plan goes awry, however, when they start taking hostages.
This is a story about family, loss, suppression and human trafficking: Rosa is living with her mother in Sheffield. When Rosa’s mother thinks about adopting a child, Rosa only slowly warms to the idea. Meanwhile, in an African village, Abela, an orphan from Tanzania is send by her uncle off to England, after her mother […]
A literary respone to the shootings of black teenagers Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown in the USA. In this fictional account, Tariq is 16 years old when he is shot by a white policeman, creating an uproar in his community. No two stories of the event match and so finding out what really happened that […]
A young adult novel about teenage boy Stanley Yelnats, who is sent to a juvenile corrections facility after being falsely accused of theft. At Camp Green Lake, the plot explores the background stories of different characters, touching on themes such as racism, homelessness and illiteracy. Two companion novels are available, Small Steps and Stanley Yelnat’s […]
A young adult novel from a teenage perspective about bullying, prejudices, religious extremism, manipulation and courage. After moving to a new school in London, fifteen-year-old Muzna faces stereotyping at school and conflicts with her parents about her future plans at home. She finally meets Arif, a confident and beautiful boy from her school, who encourages […]
The first case of the famous Victorian private detective Sherlock Holmes. After returning to London, Dr. Watson, a veteran of the second Anglo-Afghan war, encounters Sherlock Holmes, a private investigator. Holmes is requested to solve a mysterious murder case, they investigate together. They follow the clue of a wedding ring left behind at the crime […]
A play about racism, prejudice, segregation and African American identity in the 1950s. Walter Younger lives with his family of five in a two-room apartment in Chicago’s south side. Walter’s mother is waiting for ten thousand dollars from his father’s life insurance and Walter would like to use that money to open a liquor store. […]
A family tragedy of disenfranchisement, idealism, race relations as well as broken dreams set in an ‘all-black’ neighbourhood in 1950’s Pittsburgh. Troy, who works as a garbage man, has a wife and two sons. They live in a house that Troy bought using the compensation money his brother received for being shot in the head […]
The classic tale in the realm of magical realism combines language and logic into a memorable world of ‘literary nonsense’, which continues to shape popular culture for decades. While Alice, a 7-year old girl, sits next to a river she notices a white rabbit and follows it into its rabbit hole, emerging again in Wonderland, […]
A novel about desire, sexuality, power and coming to terms with life’s adversities. The story is set in post-aphartheid South Africa: David Lurie works as a professor for English in Cape Town when an affair with one of his students costs him his job. Not only does he quit university but also living in the […]