Cutting Edge series
Cutting Edge is a gritty, honest and hard-hitting quick read series for teens and young adults who find conventional fiction irrelevant to them or too hard to read. Each book is no more than 25,000 words, with a carefully chosen large font, simple layout and controlled vocabulary.
The series features authors from South Africa, Australia, the U.S. and the UK, several of whom have won notable awards for their work. Cutting Edge's fast-moving, character-focused narratives delve right to the heart of a tougher side of life and are sure to hook reluctant readers 14 years and over.
Also suitable for ESL learners.
Cutting Edge: Bone Song - Sherryl Clark | |
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Rebellious Dobie despises her wealthy background and has just lost the chance to be a professional dancer...
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Cutting Edge: Breaking Dawn - Donna Shelton | |
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It's so cool having a really close friend. Somebody you can share secrets with, somebody you can trust...
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Cutting Edge: Don't Even Think It - Helen Orme | |
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Abigail's diary. Keep out. Private. But you can read it. When you get a diary for Christmas and your New Year resolution is to write in it, then you have to, don't you? But the trouble with writing about what's happening in your life is that it's not like a novel: I mean you just have to write about what happens, right? No matter where it takes you...
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Cutting Edge: Gun Dog - Peter Lancett | |
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Set on one of Britain's tough and often brutal council estates, Gun Dog is a powerful story about the struggle to succeed in a place where the lawless operate without fear, and the good are consistently failed by the agencies of law and order...
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Cutting Edge: Marty's Diary - Frances Cross | |
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When your Dad gets married again, it's a good thing, right? Everybody happy all around? Not when your new stepmother can't stand you...
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Cutting Edge: See You On the Backlot - Thomas Nealeigh | |
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Tony is not even 15 years old yet he travels the country as part of the carnival sideshow his father, Charlie, owns...
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Cutting Edge: Seeing Red - Peter Lancett | |
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Tom Hathaway leads a pretty comfortable life. He's only ever seen at school wearing Prada, Ralph Lauren or Gianfranco Ferre...
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Cutting Edge: Stained - Joanne Hichens | |
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In a poor district on the outskirts of Cape Town, Grace lives with her adoptive mother. Of mixed race, Grace dreams about what her birth mother is like and is plagued by a deep sense of not belonging...
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Cutting Edge: The Finer Points of Becoming Machine - Em Andrews | |
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Growing up with a violent, control freak father, 16-year-old Emma Banks has had a tougher ride than most...
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Cutting Edge: The Only Brother - Caias Ward | |
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Always feeling distant from his family, Andrew Cooper faces the shock of his life when his better-liked older brother suddenly dies...
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