The first paper girl in Red Oak, Iowa and other stories
By: Elizabeth Stuckey-French.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
Subjects: Middle West -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Other titles: First paper girl in Red Oak, Iowa
Description: "In "Junior," we meet a dog psychic who enlists her troubled niece in a moneymaking scheme. In "Electric Wizard," grieving parents beg a teacher to invent poetry and pretend their dead son wrote it. And in the title story, the mother of two young children drives east on a disordered impulse through a blizzard and picks up a gas station attendant along the way."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of contents: title: Junior; title: Doodlebug; title: The first paper girl in Red Oak, Iowa; title: Famous poets; title: Blessing; title: Plywood rabbit; title: Scavenger hunt; title: Search and rescue; title: Leufredus; title: Professor claims he found formula for ancient steel; title: Electric wizard; title: The visible man.