eBook (ePDF): Via Afrika English First Additional Language Grade 9 Novel: Olivia grows up
R25.63
These novels have been written to match the interests and reading levels of Grade 7, 8 and 9 learners. The novel forms an important part of the reading component of the CAPS curriculum and must be used in addition to the class reader.
Description
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Olivia and her friends face a new year: new classes, new teachers, new friendships, challenges, adventures, heartbreaks and insights as they enter high school.
With a narrative style that is easy and conversational the story invites you to identify with Olivia and her friends’ struggles with exams, intercultural friendships, dating, parents, death … The story deals in a sensitive way with these and other issues like HIV and AIDS, crime, rape, drugs and teenage pregnancy.
Naturally, the friends have a lot of fun too, with athletics, a gocart race, a school play and just enjoying each other’s company. And of course there is a wonderful high school romance that makes Olivia’s cheeks flush and her heart race …
