The New Paper Families features stories from all over the world – Australia, China, Great Britain, Greece, India, Iran, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Somalia, and the United States. These lesson sized stories cover a range of themes, styles and genres, introducing students to writing techniques and the skills of critical literacy. Organised by genre, each section contains three stories written for the mainstream fiction market that are perfect for a range of student abilities in the Year 9 and 10 classroom.