This is one of the titles for the Oxford Literacy Web fiction strand for upper Key Stage 2, (Y5 & Y6) designed to fit the National Literacy Strategy. The stories for Year 6 are: "Space Rock and Five-a-side" by Jon Blake - what it takes to be popular, a hard hitting story involving addiction; "Car Crusher" by Philip Wooderson - a story of unfairness and bias and the proving of innocence; "Skew Whiff" by Anna Perera - can Anjouli and her friends win the maths contest and repair the damage they've done to the house and still be ready for the birthday party?; "Wimmer" by Margaret McAllister - two children find a very curious dog on the run from a research centre. Will they be able to keep him secret when he begins to grow wings?; "War Stories" by Nick Warburton - two stories about children whose lives are changed by war; and "Eva" by Shirley Isherwood - the story of an escape from Nazi Germany and a child's memory afterwards.
- ISBN10 0199159696
- ISBN13 9780199159697
- Publish Date 1 March 2001
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 4 August 2006
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Oxford University Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 104
- Language English