Necessary noise
Subtitle: stories about our families as they really are
By: edited by Michael Cart ; illustrations by Charlotte Noruzi.
Contributors: Cart, Michael.; Noruzi, Charlotte, ill.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: HarperTempest
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
Subjects: Family -- Juvenile fiction; Young adult fiction, American; Family -- Fiction; Short stories
Genres: Juvenile fiction.; Fiction.
Description: gay
Notes: "Joanna Cotler Books."
Table of contents: title: Hardware / Joan Bauer; title: Siskiyou Sloan and the eye of the giraffe / Norma Howe; title: Necessary noise / Emma Donoghue; title: The throwaway, a suite / Nikki Grimes; title: Visit / Walter Dean Myers; title: A family illness, a Mom-Son conversation / Joyce Carol Thomas; title: A woman's touch / Rita Williams-Garcia; title: Sailing away / Michael Cart; title: Dr. Jekyll and    Sister Hyde / Sonya Sones; title: Snowbound / Lois Lowry.