When soldiers arrive in Arn's Cambodian hometown in the 1970s, he is separated from his family and sent to a labour camp. He learns to play an instrument to appease the demands of the soldiers and finds a way to survive in the camp. As the country is about to be liberated from the Khmer Rouge, Arn is forced to become a child soldier. This novel is based on the life of Cambodian advocate Arn Chorn-Pond.

This anthology of classic and contemporary essays includes a variety of authors, disciplines, issues and themes. Each chapter highlights a particular rhetorical strategy, such as narration, analogy and persuasion, and ends with questions for discussion plus suggestions for writing and further reading.

Sixteen-year-old Sarah is an artist who is no longer able to draw. Problems with a teacher at school, an abusive home life and a missing brother combine to create a crisis for Sarah. She begins to wander the streets of Philadelphia where she meets two versions of her future self, as well as her 10-year-old self. In the emotional tornado of her life, has Sarah lost touch with reality?

Three characters tell the story through alternating chapters. Molly and Pepper Al-Yusef are two teenagers carrying their own personal burdens. They meet after a mysterious letter leads them to the diary of Ava, an East German resistance fighter whose murder at seventeen led to the destruction of the Berlin Wall. Together Molly and Pepper form a friendship as they search for Ava's murderer.

Using a comic-strip format and humour, Satrapi describes life growing up in Tehran. Her family was involved in the Communist and the Socialist movements prior to the Iranian Revolution. During Marjane's childhood, Iran's civil liberties became suppressed, the Khomeini regime was in power, and the Iran-Iraq war began. Fourteen-year-old Marjane was sent to Vienna to escape the Iranian regime. While she attended school, she experienced physical and personal changes and became involved with peopl...

This play is based on Tom's recollections of his mother Amanda and his sister Laura. Amanda was abandoned by her husband and longs for the days when she was a southern belle. Laura's spends her time with her collection of glass animals which keeps her away from the outside world. Amanda obsesses about finding her daughter a suitor. Tom invites a work acquaintance, Jim, for supper and Jim reveals he is engaged to be married. Laura has been in love with Jim since high school. Assuming that Tom...

Although Samantha McAllister's life is consumed with the effects of her obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), she manages to keep it a secret in order to belong to the group of popular girls at her high school. When she meets Caroline, however, Sam is introduced to a group of misfits who help her discover a new side of herself.

Eleanor and Park are both teenage misfits. Eleanor is new in town and is bullied for being different; Park has lived in town all his life but still feels like he doesn't belong. During one school year in 1986, the two find out how much they have in common and form a relationship despite their differences.

A teen soul named A wakes up every morning in a different body and lives a different life for just one day. A has made peace with the limitations of this existence until one day a person appears with whom A would like to spend every day.

Livvy Newman's mother tells her they are moving to San Francisco from Vermont so she can look for a new job, but Livvy soon discovers the truth - her mother really moved them so she can care for Livvy's grandmother with Alzheimer's disease. During an episode of dementia, Livvy's grandmother reveals clues to her past that involve the Holocaust, concentration camps and Anne Frank. Livvy and her friend Franklin D. are soon involved in trying to unravel the mystery of her family's past.

This anthology introduces students to great works of literature, while helping them to learn to read and to write analytically. Accompanied by online access to video interviews of dozens of living authors featured in the book, this text provides a focus on writing, featuring sections on poetry, fiction and drama, including 2 Shakespearean plays.

In 1937, Hitler's power affects rural Germany. Weilbach's family encounters racial slurs, her father's arrest and her grandmother's disappearance. Weilbach escapes Germany and boards a luxury refugee ship. The ship is refused entry by Cuba, the United States and Canada. Eventually the ship sails back to Europe, where England and other countries provide sanctuary for the refugees. In England, Weilbach experiences loneliness, confusion and does not understand English. Through the lens of a chi...

This is the true story of Ishmael Beah, a boy who fled attacking rebels in Sierra Leone at age 12, only to be led a year later into the role of a government child soldier. Ishmael experiences the horrors of war first-hand until the age of 16 when he is finally removed from the fighting by UNICEF. The memoir presents an account of survival, perseverance and, ultimately, forgiveness.

50 Essays: A Portable Anthology is a collection of classic essays and contemporary readings relevant to students. The essays address topics such as diversity, identity and making ethical choices. Authors include Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, David Sedaris, Plato and Virginia Woolf. At the beginning of each essay, a brief biography of the author is provided. The anthology includes a table of contents, an alternate table of contents, a glossary of writing terms and an index of authors and titles.