Table of Contents: “…The school story / Jeffrey Richards -- Robert Cormier's The chocolate war : paranoia and paradox / Perry Nodelman -- Home and family : English and American ideals in the nineteenth century / Gillian Avery -- 'The most beautiful things in all the world'? …”

Table of Contents: “…Le Guin -- Middle of the way: Rodie Sudbery and Beverly Cleary -- The color of skin: Mildred Taylor -- "The colour of saying": Paula Fox -- Making the children stretch: Nina Bawden -- Types of ambiguity: Jill Paton Walsh -- The sadness of compromise: Robert Cormier and Jill Chaney -- Not even for a one-night stand: Judy Blume -- Time present and time past: Penelope Lively.…”