Prescribed Literature
Explore Cover2Cover’s Setworks section. Each book is tailored for English First Additional Language learners, offering engaging stories that align with the curriculum. From thrilling adventures and heartfelt dramas to powerful contemporary narratives, these setworks are designed to captivate students and enhance their learning experience.
RESCUE! (GRADE 7)
CAPS Approved for English FAL Grade 7 As soon as Zolani felt safe enough he stepped out from behind the tree and walked quickly and quietly across the open veld towards the building. As he moved closer, he ran from shadow to shadow, until he reached the warehouse. He was horrified by what he saw……
Michelle Faure
A SHINING STAR (GRADE 8)
CAPS Approved for English FAL grade 8 I live in Alex. It’s a place that never sleeps. Cops, nurses and lovers live here, foreigners from war-torn countries, and the unemployed brothers of mothers. It’s everything to me, my mother and father, my auntie and my uncle. The only other place I could live – is…
Julie Barker
FRIENDS FOREVER (GRADE 9)
CAPS Approved for English FAL Grade 9 Babalwa could not stop crying. Her whole body shuddered with quiet sobs. Everything had gone wrong. She wished she was a different person who didn’t make the worst choices possible. She wished she had never come to Cape Town. That was when it had all started… Babalwa has…
Dorothy Dyer
FINDERS KEEPERS (GRADE 10)
Finders Keepers is on the DBE National Literature Catalogue as the approved contemporary novel for English First Additional Language Grade 10. When 16 year-old Lufuno leaves Jozi to start a new life in Cape Town with her family, she is running from her past. She doesn’t realise it’s about to get even tougher. She is…
Rosamund Haden
TSOTSI (GRADE 11)
A powerful and turbulent story, set in the late 1950s, about Sophiatown gangster Tsotsi, who menaces the streets. The approved contemporary novel for Home Language English Grade 11. Specially prepared for schools.
Athol Fugard
