Books in Collections series

This collection explores life on earth and our place within it. It celebrates the diversity of our environment, and reflects on how our planet is changing and what we can do to protect it. The texts include a range of non-fiction and fiction extracts, short stories and poetry, and are arranged in four themed sections: Wild things, Water worlds, Nature's power and Future planet. The collection include texts by David Attenborough, Sujata Bhatt, John Clare, Susan Cooper, Roger Deakin and Michael Morpurgo.

This anthology offers a richly diverse and thought-provoking collection of non-fiction texts. All are informative - but they are also, by turns, entertaining, eye-opening, challenging, inspiring and poetic. The texts are arranged in five themed sections: The world around us; The world of work; Science; Parents and children; and Human rights and wrongs. The collection includes texts by Fergal Keane, Brian Keenan, Martin Luther King, George Orwell, Libby Purves and Lynne Truss.

This collection offers a richly diverse range of texts about families in all their variety, in good times and bad times, now and in the past, and reflects a wide range of cultures and settings. They are arranged in four themed sections: Celebration and security, Conflict and confusion, Change and uncertainty and History and continuity. The collection includes texts by Anne Fine, David Crystal, Shyama Perera, Jackie Kay, Seamus Heaney and Thomas Hardy.