Balaclava Boy (school edition)

Tommy, the newcomer at Colliery Primary, wears a balaclava to school every day. Why? What could possibly be underneath? A terrible scar? Some alien life form? Dumisani and Doogle, aka the Doo Dudes and best friends in the world, are determined to find out. Whatever it takes.

This school edition of Balaclava Boy is included in the Department of Basic Educations National Catalogue for Senior Phase learners. It has been revised and updated with activities for pre-reading and post-reading, questions according to cognitive levels, glossaries and notes on the genre of the novel. Memoranda available online at www.tafelberg.com.

Auteur

Jenny Robson is well known for her youth novels. Mellow Yellow, suitable for the same age group as this new title, was published in the nineties and is still a firm favourite with many teachers and children. Jenny has won the Sanlam Prize for Youth Literature five times. Praise Song, the last winning novel, was also awarded the MER Prize for youth books. For Savannah, 2116 AD she was awarded the Percy Fitzpatrick prize, and she attended the Berlin Literary Festival in 2004 on invitation. After a brief period in South Africa, Jenny returned to her beloved Botswana in 2009, where she took up a teaching post.