A collection of newspaper articles, poems, short stories and extracts from novels exploring the theme of ousiders - who have experiences that set them apart from those around them. A variety of texts make up each of the four themed sections: Fictional outsiders; Heroes and heroines; Moving places, moving lives and Feeling different. The collection includes texts by Mark Haddon, Harper Lee, Doris Lessing, Michael Morpurgo, Gervase Phinn and Benjamin Zephaniah.

 

 

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

There are 280 pages in this book.

It is aimed at Young Adult readers. The term Young Adult (YA) is used for books which have the following characteristics: (1) aimed at ages 12-18 years, US grades 7-12, UK school years 8-15, (2) around 50-75k words long, (3) main character is aged 12-18 years, (4) topics include self-reflection, internal conflict vs external, analyzing life and its meaning, (5) point of view is often in the first person, and (6) swearing, violence, romance and sexuality are allowed.

This book was published in 2007 by Cambridge University Press .

This book has the following chapters: 1. Fictional outsiders: Why The Whales Came , Michael Morpurgo; The Highwayman, Alfred Noyes; The Pied Piper of Hamelin, Robert Browning; The Third Man, Graham Greene; To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee; The Man Who Planted Trees, Jean Giono; A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens; Silas Marner, George Eliot; Activities; 2. Heroes and heroines: Heroic Failures, Stephen Pile; Blind Spanish Woman Makes Television History, Julian Coman; Marla Runyan, Peter Sheridan; Touching The Void, Conn and Hal Iggulden; On Being John McEnroe, Tim Adams; The Madness of Man, Andrew Alderson; It's Not about the Bike, Lance Armstrong; Moondust, Andrew Smith; Activities; 3: Moving places, moving lives; Coming To England, Floella Benjamin; Refugee Boy, Benjamin Zephaniah; What's Your Problem?, Bali Rai; A Boy Called 'Grenade', Fergal Keane; Mirad, A Boy From Bosnia, Ad de Bont; Zlata's Diary, Zlata Filipovic; Shooting An Elephant, George Orwell; A Stranger's Eye, Fergal Keane; Activities; 4. Feeling different: The Rebel, D. J. Enright; Less Able, Gervase Phinn; Dear Aunty, Patricia Borlenghi; Face, Benjamin Zephaniah; The Rescue of Karen Arscott, Gene Kemp; Red Sky in the Morning, Elizabeth Laird; The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Mark Haddon; The Fifth Child, Doris Lessing; The Bus People, Rachel Anderson; Activities; Notes on authors.