Help your students make those vital two levels of progress in Reading and Writing with this new KS3 series from Collins. Each book concentrates on moving students up one level in reading or writing, covering each of the Assessment Focuses in turn.[...]

If you feel overwhelmed by the complexity of TOEFL, Collins Skills for the TOEFL iBT Test can help. This book helps you handle the integrated aspect of the tasks in the test, and give you tips and strategies for the different question types you will face. Collins Skills for the TOEFL iBT Test is a t[...]

Improve your reading with a new skills book from Collins, for pre-intermediate (A2) learners of English.[...]

Lets you immerse your students in refreshing topics while increasing their vocabulary base and preparing them for academic assignments. Suitable for beginning to high-intermediate learners, this title offers comprehension activities that encourage students to access and interact with text and to dev[...]

What does it mean when a fictional hero takes a journey?. Shares a meal? Gets drenched in a sudden rain shower? Often, there is much more going on in a novel or poem than is readily visible on the surface--a symbol, maybe, that remains elusive, or an unexpected twist on a character--and there's that[...]

Growing number of Christians both inside and outside the organized church are unwilling to abandon the modern world of science and critical thinking in order to believe, and are searching fro an enlightened, modern way to understand their faith and the Bible. Leading biblical expert Marcus Borg offe[...]

The Reading Group follows the trials and tribulations of a group of women who meet regularly to read and discuss books.Over the course of a year, each of these women become intertwined, both in the books they read and within each other's lives.Inspired by a shared desire for conversation, a good boo[...]

An insider's report on how professionals read and write instructs aspiring writers on the methods employed by such literary figures as Kafka, Austen, and Dickens, in a resource that draws on key examples to demonstrate the essentials of good plot and character development. 30,000 first printing.[...]

Chronicles the lifelong love between the children of two prostitutes--Henriette, a healthy young girl, and Hercules, a hideously deformed boy--as Hercules endures a life of social oppression, corruption, and religious persecution during his sojourn with the grotesques in a freak show, a stay in a si[...]

"Human beings were never born to read," writes Tufts University cognitive neuroscientist and child development expert Maryanne Wolf. Reading is a human invention that reflects how the brain rearranges itself to learn something new. In this ambitious, provocative book, Wolf chronicles the remarkable [...]

His quirky imagination, rich vocabulary, and ability to convey a sense of loss even in the midst of funny situations make me wish I?d picked him up years ago. Many people are probably most familiar with his work through the film Wonder Boys, which starred Michael Douglas and Toby McGuire, but Chabon[...]

Splat the Cat is back with five hilarious I Can Read adventures in a travel-ready carrying case with its own handle--that's better than fish sticks and ice cream This set includes: Splat the Cat Sings FlatSplat the Cat: Good Night, Sleep TightSplat the Cat and the Duck with No QuackSplat the Cat Tak[...]