Ostrich Boys

Shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2010 Keith Gray's hit novel features a group of three friends who embark on a remarkable journey from Cleethorpes to Scotland with a stolen urn containing the ashes of their best friend... Now adapted for the stage by Birmingham Rep for a production by their Youth Theatre in 2011 <i>Ostrich Boys</i> is ideal for KS3 and KS4 English and will appeal strongly to boys as well as girls. <br/><p></p><br/><p>This educational edition in Methuen Drama's Critical Scripts series has been prepared by national Drama in Secondary English experts Ruth Moore and Paul Bunyan. Building on a decade of highly effective work and publications endorsed by national organisations and supported by teachers and consultants across Britain each book in the series: <br/><ul><br/><li>meets the new requirements at KS3 and GCSE (2010) <br/><li>features detailed structured schemes of work utilising drama approaches to improve literary and language analysis <br/><li>places pupils' understanding of the learning process at the heart of the activities <br/><li>will help pupils to boost English GCSE success and develop high-level skills at KS3 <br/><li>will save teachers considerable time devising their own resources.</li></ul>