An eclectic mix of fiction, poetry, articles and autobiography exploring what it is to be human and examining the challenges we face as global citizens. This collection is designed to link with Citizenship and PSHE issues, such as identity, rights, responsibilities and tradition. The texts are arranged in five themed sections: Growing pains; Letting go; Facing the world; Britain in the past and The world about us. The collection includes texts by Maya Angelou, Arthur C. Clarke, Graham Greene, Doris Lessing, Penelope Lively and Roger McGough.

 

This book is part of a book series called Cambridge Collections .

This book is aimed at children in secondary school.

There are 240 pages in this book. It is an anthology. This book was published 2007 by Cambridge University Press .

Geoff Barton is Deputy Headteacher at Thurston Upper School, Suffolk. He is an experienced author of school texts. Laurie Smith is a part-time Teacher and consultant at King's College, London and an experienced English examiner.

This book has the following chapters: 1. Growing pains: Clara's Day, Penelope Lively; Sliding, Leslie Norris; Taming the Tiger, Tony Anthony; I Wish I Were . , Rabindranath Tagore; I Was Left with a Childcarer . and Never Collected, Barbara Brown; Activities; 2. Letting go: My Best Teacher, Vic Reeves; The Secret Life of Snap Decisions, Malcolm Gladwell; The Selfish Giant, Oscar Wilde; An African Elegy, Ben Okri; I Found Love at the Supermarket Checkout, Tom Hill; Warning to Children, Robert Graves; Activities; 3. Facing the world: If, Rudyard Kipling; Through the Tunnel, Doris Lessing; Almost Drowning, Richard Branson; The Boy Who Fell out of the Sky, Ken Dornstein; Once in a House on Fire, Andrea Ashworth; My Mam's Death, Samantha Studley; Activities; 4. Britain in the past: The Year 1000, Robert Lacey and Danny Danziger; Down the Mine, George Orwell; The Village Blacksmith, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; MCMXIV, Philip Larkin; The Roses of No Man's Land, Lyn MacDonald; Not My Best Side, U. A. Fanthorpe; Activities; 5. The world about us: The Destructors, Graham Greene; We Are Going to See the Rabbit, Alan Brownjohn; Song of the Battery Hen, Edwin Brock; Alexander Graham Bell and the Telephone, Adam Hart-Davis and Paul Bader; Hunger, Laurence Binyon; Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser; Facts to Change the World, Jessica Williams; Somebody's Watching You, Alexandra Campbell; Televised, Maya Angelou; The Fish Are All Sick, Anne Stevenson; The Lake, Roger McGough; Before Eden, Arthur C. Clarke; Activities; Notes on authors.