1. Growing pains: Clara's Day, Penelope Lively; Sliding, Leslie Norris; Taming the Tiger, Tony Anthony; I Wish I Were . . ., Rabindranath Tagore; I Was Left with a Childcarer . . . and Never Collected, Barbara Brown; Activities; 2. Letting go: My Best Teacher, Vic Reeves; The Secret Life of Snap Decisions, Malcolm Gladwell; The Selfish Giant, Oscar Wilde; An African Elegy, Ben Okri; I Found Love at the Supermarket Checkout, Tom Hill; Warning to Children, Robert Graves; Activities; 3. Facing the world: If, Rudyard Kipling; Through the Tunnel, Doris Lessing; Almost Drowning, Richard Branson; The Boy Who Fell out of the Sky, Ken Dornstein; Once in a House on Fire, Andrea Ashworth; My Mam's Death, Samantha Studley; Activities; 4. Britain in the past: The Year 1000, Robert Lacey and Danny Danziger; Down the Mine, George Orwell; The Village Blacksmith, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; MCMXIV, Philip Larkin; The Roses of No Man's Land, Lyn MacDonald; Not My Best Side, U. A. Fanthorpe; Activities; 5. The world about us: The Destructors, Graham Greene; We Are Going to See the Rabbit, Alan Brownjohn; Song of the Battery Hen, Edwin Brock; Alexander Graham Bell and the Telephone, Adam Hart-Davis and Paul Bader; Hunger, Laurence Binyon; Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser; Facts to Change the World, Jessica Williams; Somebody's Watching You, Alexandra Campbell; Televised, Maya Angelou; The Fish Are All Sick, Anne Stevenson; The Lake, Roger McGough; Before Eden, Arthur C. Clarke; Activities; Notes on authors.
