This anthology explores, through incisive and entertaining stories, the very nature of this sensitive time in a young person's life. It will become a defining book for this age group. With original stories by some of our best contemporary authors, such as Eoin Colfer; Bali Rai; Marcus Sedgewick; Kevin Brooks; Margaret Mahy; Mary Hooper; Helen Oyayemi; Eleanor Updale; Jean Ure and John McLay has written one himself, and brought to the reader in short story format, often for the first time. This book will reach out to its audience with its stories that get to the heart of being thirteen every time!

 

 

This book is part of a book series called Orchard Black Apples .

There are 241 pages in this book.

It is aimed at Young Adult readers. The term Young Adult (YA) is used for books which have the following characteristics: (1) aimed at ages 12-18 years, US grades 7-12, UK school years 8-15, (2) around 50-75k words long, (3) main character is aged 12-18 years, (4) topics include self-reflection, internal conflict vs external, analyzing life and its meaning, (5) point of view is often in the first person, and (6) swearing, violence, romance and sexuality are allowed.

This book was published in 2005 by Hachette Children's Group .

John McLay is extremely well connected in the children's publishing world. He was Director of Bath Literary Festival for six years, and also works as an international scout, literary agent and reviewer.