Who's afraid? / Philippa Pearce --
The TV star / Judy Blume (from Tales of a fourth grade nothing) --
Bilgewater : an extract / Jane Gardam --
The day it rained cockroaches / Paul Zindel (from The pigman and me) --
The doll's house / Katherine Mansfield --
The secret diary of Adrian Mole, aged 13 3/4 : an extract / Sue Townsend --
Little by little : an extract / Jean Little --
Sam's storm / Betsy Byars --
Anne's history / L.M. Montgomery (from Anne of Green Gables) --
May I have your autograph? / Marjorie Sharmat --
Dear Bruce Springsteen : an extract / Kevin Major --
Reverdy / Jessamyn West --
The cement truck / Laurence Lasky --
The evacuees / Nina Bawden (from Carrie's war) --
Catalogue cats / Ann Cameron --
Stray / Cynthia Rylant --
The stolen bicycle / William Saroyan --
The general sees active service / Ethel Turner (from Seven little Australians) --
I spy / Graham Greene --
A terrible announcement / Lynne Reid Banks (from One more river) --
The red pony : an extract / John Steinbeck --
Our field / Mrs Ewing --
Lion by moonlight / Richard Parker (from Lion at large) --
Daddy-long-legs : an extract / Jean Webster --
President Cleveland, where are you? / Robert Cormier --
The golden darters / Elizabeth Winthrop --
Goat's tobacco / Roald Dahl (from Boy : tales of childhood) --
The ladder / V.S. Pritchett.