SuperZero (school edition) Read online

  Readers answer questions.

  Post-reading

  Design a graphic representation (mind map/diagram) to point out main thoughts and make some supportive notes to recall specific in­formation at a later stage.

  Draw conclusions.

  Make a summary to facilitate recollection of main thoughts.

  Learners reflect on the subject and compile new questions on it.

  Learners ask questions to determine whether they have reached their goal.

  Learners determine whether they understand the text.

  Evaluate the quality and contents of the text, as well as prejudice or bias.

  Learners broaden their intellect – use ideas that are present in the text.

  Readers answer questions.

  Zed is just an ordinary boy living an ordinary life when one day he discovers a secret box, long-hidden, crammed with clues and secrets that might just change his life forever. Soon there are unexplained fires and cruel deaths, weird happenings at the circus, and Zed’s strange conviction that slowly everyone around him seem to be somehow … changing. But what can Zed do about it – one small, slightly clumsy schoolboy? How can he be expected to save himself, let alone the world?

  Winner of the Silver Sanlam Prize for Youth Literature (2005) and the Percy Fitzpatrick Prize for Youth Literature (2008).

  This school edition of SuperZero is included in the Department of Basic Education’s 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.

  Darrel Bristow-Bovey was born in Durban in the 1970s and lost his father when he was twelve. He studied English literature under J.M. Coetzee and André P. Brink at the University of Cape Town, and three years after leaving university set himself up a as a freelance writer with weekly columns in The Sunday Independent, Business Day and Cape Times, as well as several monthly columns.

  He won the Mondi prize for best South African columnist four years in succession. In 2002 he was a prize-winner at the SAB Sportswriter of the Year Awards, and he has also been a prize-winner in the Africa-Geographic Travel Writing Competition for the past three years running.

  His first book, I Moved Your Cheese, was translated into four languages and sold all around the world, most notably Brazil (in Portuguese translation) and India, where it topped the English best-seller lists for several months. His second book, The Naked Bachelor, was a chart-topper in Singapore.

  In 2005 Darrel switched to screenwriting, having written extensively for SABC3’s Hard Copy and The Lab. He also co-wrote a comedy show with comic John Vlismas.

  SuperZero is Darrel’s first full-length novel for young readers, and he says: “Writing for children is a lot more difficult than writing for adults, and more satisfying if you get it right, because young readers have far firmer (and I think far more admirable) ideas about what’s important when they read than we adults do.”

  First school edition published in 2013

  by Tafelberg,

  an imprint of NB Publishers,

  a division of Media24 Boeke (Pty) Ltd,

  40 Heerengracht, Cape Town, South Africa

  www.tafelberg.com

  Copyright © 2006 Darrel Bristow-Bovey

  All rights reserved.

  No part of this electronic book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including photocopying and recording, or by any other information storage or retrieval system, without written permission from the publisher.

  Cover design by Flame Digital

  Cover adaptation by Michelle Staples

  E-book design by Trace Digital Services

  Available in print:

  First edition in 2006

  First school edition in 2013

  ISNB: 978-0-624-05753-6

  Epub edition:

  First school edition in 2013

  ISBN: 978-0-624-06584-5 (epub)

  Mobi edition:

  First school edition in 2013

  ISBN: 978-0-624-06585-2 (mobi)