Year 9 novel:
Read Suzanne Collin's complete series available to borrow as a book, ebook or audiobook in the library!
Suzanne Collins (born August 10, 1962) is an American author and television writer. She is known as the author of the book series The Hunger Games.
Born in Hartford, Connecticut, to Jane Brady Collins and Lieutenant Colonel Michael John Collins a U.S. Air Force officer who served in the Korean and the Vietnam War. She is the youngest of four children. As the daughter of a military officer, she and her family were constantly moving. She spent her childhood in the eastern United States. Collins graduated from the Alabama School of Fine Arts in 1980 as a Theatre Arts major but didn't begin a professional writing career until 1991.
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Year 9 film:
10 Things I Hate About You
A modernisation of William Shakespeare's late-16th-century comedy The Taming of the Shrew, retold in a late-1990s American high school setting. On his first day at a new school, a teenage boy instantly falls for the girl of his dreams! The only problem is that she is forbidden to date... until her completely un-dateable older sister does..
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10 Things I Hate about you is a reworking or a loose adaptation of William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, click below to find some interesting resources!
Director: Gil Junger
Screen Play: Karen McCulluh and Kirsten Smith, loosely adapted from William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew
Cast: Heath Ledger, Julia Stiles, Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Information sourced from IMDB