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Subtitle: stories by the book
By: edited by Gary Paulsen.
Contributors: Paulsen, Gary.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 173
Subjects: Children's stories, American.; Books and reading -- Juvenile fiction.; Books and reading -- Fiction.; Short stories.
Genres: Juvenile fiction.; Fiction.
Description: Ten short stories in which the lives of young people in different circumstances are changed by their encounters with books.
Table of contents: title: In your hat / Ellen Conford; title: Escape / Margaret Peterson Haddix; title: Follow the water / Jennifer L. Holm; title: Testing, testing 1, 2, 3 / A. LaFaye; title: Tea party ends in bloody massacre, film at 11 / Gregory Maguire; title: What's a fellow to do / Kathleen Karr; title: Wet hens / Ellen Wittlinger; title: The good deed / Marion Dane Bauer; title: Barcarole for paper and bones / M.T. Anderson; title: Clean sweep / Joan Bauer.