Books in Young Corgi Books series

The Danebridge School soccer team is through to the cup final. Andrew Weston, who plays in a key position in defense, can hardly wait for the big day. His brother is the team's substitute goalkeeper. But the Weston brothers suddenly discover that they have a big problem. For the match clashes with an important family occasion—and their mother insists that they must drop out of the match! What can they do? They can't possibly miss the Final!

Joe's garden has been invaded by fairies and he's totally fed up. Since prim, girly cousin Sara-Jane arrived to stay with Joe and his sisters, the climbing frame's become a fairy bower, there's fairy cakes for tea, and no one wants to do his assault course anymore. Then Joe meets the new neighbor—another girl, to his horror. But Mel shows more interest in boat battles and croquet than wings and gossamer—and she has a splendid idea for putting the fairies to flight for good.

When Steven Callahan's small sloop sank west of the Canary Islands, he found himself adrift in the Atlantic in a five-foot inflatable raft, with only enough food and water for 18 days. Finally, out of flares and out of the shipping lanes, his only hope was to try to float to the Caribbean, clear across the Atlantic to the south and west, hundreds of miles away. On the 75th day he spotted land. In 76 days he had drifted 1800 miles, the only man in history to have survived more than a month alone at sea in an inflatable raft. "There are many tales of survival, but ADRIFT is 20,000 leagues better than the rest." (Kirkus Reviews) Slightly edited for radio presentation.