• Titch knows he's a good goalie, but every time he volunteers, he's given the same answer: 'You're too short". The first eleven keeps losing and Titch is determined to prove that only he can save them. But will they let him try?
• When a new boy starts at his school, Lee and his friends think he is very weird. It is only later that they discover he is a lot weirder that even they had realised!
• Jeremy loves torturing worms. That is, until they decide to take their revenge...
• A computer game and real life become strangely entwined when Michael realises that the boy he's been playing with has actually been in a coma for the last six weeks.
This up-to-the minute collection, including stories by Michael Rosen, Robert Swindells and Neil Arksey, covers subjects such as sport, horror, science fiction, computers, war and the supernatural. The 12 stories have been chosen to amuse, entertain and appeal directly to the interests of all Key Stage 3 readers.