Visions

Repeating the successful formula of Sixteen this collection has 19 new stories. It's good value for the quantity and range of stories although many teenage readers seem to dislike both the brevity of the short story and the apparent lack of consistency. That's a pity because there are some very enjoyable things here and a group of stories that I'd like pupils to read and a couple of stories I'd like to read with them, including 'The Good Girls' by Fran Arrick, about child abuse. It might be fun to predict the ending for 'Great Moves' by Sandy Asher, which has the following: 'Somewhere at the top of the heap, women were on the move, striving for justice, equality and world peace. Down here, we were still stuck scrambling for boys. When were we going to make a great move of our own?' A good book for book boxes and department libraries.