Meet the students of Carter High—they are a diverse group of teens from a variety of backgrounds. Each paperback book features a character embroiled in a typical high school dilemma. Topics are involving and pertinent to young adult readers: romance, sports, friendship, exams, work, family. In just 52 pages, even your least motivated readers can easily finish. The 16-page Teacher’s Resource Guides, only available on CD, provide 10 reproducible activities per title to extend student reading skills.
Commander Maxwell looked at the screen in silence. What he saw was a spaceship - about half a mile long, with what appeared to be a tiny control cabin at the front... Who are the two mysterious men asking Capricorn Alpha´s crew for help? What is their grave secret? Who or what has been lurking deep inside the visiting vessel's hold? Can death beat life?
DK Readers allow beginning readers to progress from easy-to-follow stories with simple sentences and word repetition to more sophisticated storylines, sentence structure, and vocabulary.
Tank Girl is the creation of Worthing comic artists Jamie Hewlett and Alan Martin. She first appeared in Deadline magazine, and quickly rose like a metaphor, to reach international fame, in an ultimately poorly drawn and apatheticly handled disaster.
Serialized in Deadline magazine for the last year, Tank Girl drives her tank around a futuristic Australia, ruled by President Paul Hogan and terrorized by a mafiosi of hard-drinking kangaroos. Her associates include her kangaroo boyfriend/sidekick Booga and a gay koala bear
