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