Missing May
Subtitle: and related readings
Contributors: Giovanni, Nikki; Stafford, William, 1914-1993; Nye, Naomi Shihab; Paley, Grace; Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892
Series: The Glencoe literature library
Publisher: Glencoe/McGraw-Hill
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 68
ISBN-13: 9780078214158
Subjects: Readers (Secondary); Grief; Death; Aunts; Criticism and interpretation; Fiction
Other titles: The world is not a pleasant place to be.; His just due.; A story that could be true.; Valentine for Ernest Mann.; Mother.; The girl who married a ghost.; Crossing the bar.
Description: For use in teaching literature to high school students.

Twelve-year-old Summer finds a home with relatives after her mother dies. After Summer's Aunt May dies suddenly, Summer and Uncle Ob try to establish contact with her spirit, only to learn that it lives within each of them.
Table of contents: title: Missing May  -- Cynthia Rylant; title: World is not a pleasant place to be  -- Nikki Giovanni; title: His just due  -- Cynthia Rylant; title: Story that could be true  -- William Stafford; title: Valentine for Ernest Mann  -- Naomi Shihab Nye; title: Mother  -- Grace Paley; title: Girl who married a ghost  -- Grace Paley; title: Crossing the bar -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson.