Selected by Andrew Whittle and Roy Blatchford

School life, family argument, passion, love and broken love - these subjects lie at the heart of this selection of short stories.

Stories include: Adolf; Rex; A Prelude; Lessford's Rabbits; A Lesson on a Tortoise; The Shades of Spring; Second Best; Her Turn; Tickets Please; The Lovely Lady.

This book is part of a book series called New Longman Literature 14-18 .

There are 160 pages in this book. This book was published 1999 by Pearson Education Limited .