Lear decides to step down from the throne and divide the kingdom among his three daughters. Goneril and Regan offer flattering answers to Lear's question: How much do you love me? Cordelia has no answer to describe the depth of her love for Lear and is banished from the kingdom. Goneril and Regan undermine Lear's authority, and he loses his grasp on reality. The deaths of the major players result in Edgar ruling the kingdom.
The Cambridge School Shakespeare series continues to make Shakespeare's plays accessible to students. This updated edition of the play includes revised learning opportunities and an enlarged section of notes including information on characters, performances, history and language. The book includes a table of contents.

In this comedy, two pairs of lovers, Benedick and Beatrice, and Claudio and Hero, are at opposite ends of the spectrum for love. Claudio and Hero are madly in love with each other; Benedick and Beatrice have a love-hate relationship. Each couple overcomes barriers that allow them to discover love.
The Cambridge School Shakespeare series continues to make Shakespeare's plays accessible to students. This edition of the play includes learning opportunities and a selection of notes including information on the characters, performances, history and language. The book includes a table of contents.

Set in Kabul under the rule of the Taliban, the novel follows two couples from different social backgrounds. Mohsen comes from a family of wealthy shopkeepers who the Taliban destroyed. His wife, Zunaira, was a teacher, but now she cannot leave her home without an escort or without covering her face.
The other couple involved in the novel is Atiq and Musarrat. Atiq is a prison keeper who adopts the Taliban ideology and struggles to keep his faith. Musarrat rescues Atiq, who is dying of sickness and despair.
A crowd of people about to stone an adulterous woman surrounds Mohsen. Mohsen is caught up in the atmosphere and starts to throw stones at the face of the women who is buried up to her waist. All four individuals struggle to hold onto their humanity during a time when pleasure is a sin and death is routine.

The text focuses on the relationships between two women and the value placed on females in Afghanistan. Mariam's and Laila's lives intersect when Laila requires care after she is wounded when her home is bombed in Kabul.
Mariam is physically abused by her husband, Rasheed, and is unable to carry a child to full term. Believing her lover Tariq is dead, Laila is alone and agrees to marry Rasheed. This arrangement is not welcomed by Mariam. After giving birth to two children, Laila is abused by Rasheed, just as he mistreats Mariam. The two women slowly establish a friendship while living under the strict rules of the Taliban.
Several themes run throughout the text: Afghan politics, women's rights, oppression, war and the importance of family.

Born to drug-addicted parents in the Bronx, Liz often "supports" her parents rather than attends school. She digs through the garbage with her father to collect items to sell for drugs or she keeps an eye out for the arrival of the postal carrier bringing the welfare check and watches the money disappear for drugs rather than food.
Liz attends school dirty and has lice-infested hair, resulting in her classmates taunting her. She skips so many classes that she is put into a girls' home. At 15, Liz's mother dies of AIDS and Liz becomes homeless. In spite of the odds, she completes her high school diploma and wins a scholarship to an Ivy League school.

Regan has always know her brother Liam is different. Liam cannot stand the person he is during the day. It is only at night that Liam reveals his true self. He takes on his female persona, Luna. Liam transforms himself into the beautiful girl he longs to be. He wears his sister's clothing and make-up.
Like the butterfly, Luna makes the decision to come out of her cocoon and reveal her true self to family and friends. The question is: Will they accept Luna for who she is?
The novel describes a transgender teen's struggle for acceptance and self-identity.

This Shakespearean tragedy explores the themes of revenge, retribution, deception, ambition, loyalty and fate. Hamlet mourns the death of his father. His mother, Queen Gertrude, marries Claudius. Old Hamlet's ghost reveals to Hamlet that Claudius poisoned him to steal the crown and Gertrude. Hamlet promises to avenge his father's death.
The Cambridge School Shakespeare series continues to make Shakespeare's plays accessible to students. This edition of the play includes information on characters, performances, history and language. The book includes a table of contents.

The Australian government established two institutions for half-caste children. Half-caste children were believed to be more intelligent than their darker peers and should be isolated and trained as domestic servants. These children became known as the "Stolen Generation."
In June 1930, police officers remove Molly, her sister, Daisy, and her cousin, Gracie, from Jigalong and transport the children 1,600 kilometres to the Moore River Native Settlement. Upon arrival, Molly does not like the settlement and vows to escape. The three girls escape and decide to walk back to Jigalong by foot. The text describes their experiences in the wilderness, the lack of food and their doubts about their decision. Once they locate the rabbit-proof fence, Molly realizes that the return to Jigalong will be easy. After nine weeks of walking, Molly and Daisy are reunited with their families.
The text is based on Molly's escape from the Moore River Native Settlement. Molly is the author's mother. The text includes a table of contents and a glossary of Mardujara words.

In occupied France during World War II, Marie-Laure, a blind girl from Paris, and Werner, an orphan from Germany, take refuge in the walled citadel of Saint-Malo. Marie-Laure and her father are working for the French Resistance and hiding a valuable jewel from the Paris Museum of Natural History; Werner has been trained as a Hitler Youth and is an expert at building and fixing radios. As the young people's paths converge, Werner discovers the radio of Marie-Laure's Uncle Etienne and he is drawn to her. When Saint-Malo is bombed, Werner finds Marie-Laure and helps her escape.