This collection of short stories contains stories by ten of the most popular authors writing for young people today. Contributors are: Malorie Blackman, Melvyn Burgess, Meg Cabot, Anne Fine, Cathy Hopkins, Sue Limb, Celia Rees, Meg Rosoff, Rosie Rushton and Jacqueline Wilson. The authors have donated their stories for publication in this book and Piccadilly Press and CosmoGIRL! are donating ro ...

Sara is a headstrong 16 year-old who wants nothing more than to be famous. Obsessed with her own self-image and the desire to be different, Sara decides that her face needs plastic surgery. Jonathan Heat, a legendary rock star, who has undergone so much plastic surgery on his face that he must wear a mask to conceal its hideous nature, offers to pay for Sara's surgery. Sara soon learns tha ...

Synopsis: Kelly Ann has come to her senses and realised that G, the boy she's fancied all year, is a total nerd and Chris, the boy next door who's been in love with her all year, is actually the man for her. But does that mean she'll live happily ever after with Chris, discovering the joys of sex and smugly advising her friends in the ways of true love? Of course not. With t ...

Synopsis: In Johannesburg in the late 1960s, the Iris family take in house guests from time to time to diffuse the tension in their large but unhappy home. 11-year-old Emily looks forward to these guests as she knows her parents will set their quarrels aside, and, if only for a short time, be like a real family. One spring a family of wanderers - an Australian couple and their two boys, ...

Synopsis: When the First World War begins, Alexandra wants to do something useful, like her brothers and her father. She has a vocation to become a nurse. Her middle class background forbids her to do anything but stay at home and wait to be married. But Alexandra can find no peace. She is haunted by an ability to sense when someone is about to die. Like Cassandra on the battlefields of ...

Synopsis: A no-nonsense, unapologetically biased overview of modern politics (or politricks) that will make you think, laugh and ultimately come up with your own opinions. Bali Rai teams up with the Observer’s Political Cartoonist, Chris Riddell to cut straight to the heart of what politics is all about, providing an intentionally simplistic yet passionate introduction for teenage ...

Synopsis:Likeable, all round good guy Keir is finishing up high school, and spending his last year living with dad Ray, before following his older sisters three hours and one state line away to college. Affectionately nicknamed ‘Killer’ at school, thanks to his accidental crippling of a fellow student on the football field, Keir finds himself after graduation, in an impossib ...

Synopsis: Life for Harry means swimming in Pearce Swamp, eating chunks of watermelon with his brother and his dad, and surviving schoolyard battles. In his town there's Linda, who brings him the sweetest-ever orange cake, and Johnny, whose lightning fists draw blood in a blur, and there's a mystery that Harry needs to solve before he can find a way out ....

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Synopsis: Seventeen-year-old Jasmine, her father and stepmother are on holiday in Las Vegas, staying at the posh Venetian Hotel. Expecting a standard sunbathing holiday, the last thing Jas anticipated was to survive a cat attack and become embroiled in a celebrity murder mystery. But does Jas have the superpowers necessary to solve the case? And more importantly, will Jas’s crush ...

Synopsis: In Yuri’s world, an inquisitive mind is a dangerous one; everyone knows that only a few careless words might condemn you to a perilous journey upon the road of bones. No one dares to have an opinion beyond those prescribed by the ‘Diktats’ (the new rules); no one dares contradict the ‘Great Captain’, Father Trofim. While the country marches toward ...