The Iliad (an extract) / retold by Alan Durant -- Goal of the day / Tom Tully -- National Velvet (an extract) / Enid Bagnold -- Just once / Thomas J. Dygard -- Mike at Wrykrn (an extract) / P.G. Wodehouse -- Stealing for girls / Will Weaver -- Wet bob, dry bob / John Branfield -- Wingman on ice (an extract) / Matt Christopher -- Spit Nolan / Bill Naughton -- The blue darter / Judith Logan Lehne -- Tom Brown's school days (an extract) / Thomas Hughes -- Basketball game (an extract) / Julius Lester -- Talk us through it / Michael Hardcastle -- Cliffhanger (an extract) / Jacqueline Wilson -- Feet / Jan Mark -- Slam! (an extract) / Walter Dean Myers -- Alex (an extract) / Tessa Duder -- The running companion / Philippa Pearce -- You know me Al (an extract) / Ring Lardner -- Contact / Malorie Blackman -- On top of the world / Alan Durant.