Growing Up Stories

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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.