Growing Up Stories
Contributors: Betsy Cromer Byars (Compiler); Robert Geary (Illustrator)
Edition: First American Edition
Publisher: Kingfisher
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781856975438
Copyright date: 1995
Subjects: Short stories; Health & Daily Living - Maturing; Children's stories, American; Juvenile Nonfiction; Children's 9-12 - Fiction - General; Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9); Social Situations - Adolescence; JNF; JNF024050; Anthologies; Children's stories, English
Table of contents: title: Who's Afraid?
pagenum: 7
authors: Philippa Pearce; title: The TV Star
pagenum: 13
authors: Judy Blume
subtitle: from Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing; title: Bilgewater
pagenum: 24
authors: Jane Gardam
subtitle: an extract; title: The Day It Rained Cockroaches
pagenum: 34
authors: Paul Zindel
subtitle: from The Pigman and Me; title: The Doll's House
pagenum: 41
authors: Katherine Mansfield; title: The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4
pagenum: 53
authors: Sue Townsend
subtitle: an extract; title: Little by Little
pagenum: 62
authors: Jean Little
subtitle: an extract; title: Sam's Storm
pagenum: 70
authors: Betsy Byars; title: Anne's History
pagenum: 78
authors: L. M. Montgomery
subtitle: from Anne of Green Gables; title: May I Have Your Autograph?
pagenum: 85
authors: Marjorie Sharmat; title: Dear Bruce Springsteen
pagenum: 91
authors: Kevin Major; title: Reverdy
pagenum: 99
authors: Jessamyn West; title: The Cement Truck
pagenum: 110
authors: Laurence Lasky; title: The Evacuees
pagenum: 116
authors: Nina Bawden
subtitle: from Carrie's War; title: Catalog Cats
pagenum: 125
authors: Ann Cameron; title: Stray
pagenum: 130
authors: Cynthia Rylant; title: The Stolen Bicycle
pagenum: 135
authors: William Saroyan; title: The General Sees Active Service
pagenum: 140
authors: Ethel Turner
subtitle: from Seven Little Australians; title: I Spy
pagenum: 154
authors: Graham Greene; title: A Terrible Announcement
pagenum: 158
authors: Lynne Reid Banks
subtitle: from One More River; title: The Red Pony
pagenum: 168
authors: John Steinbeck
subtitle: an extract; title: Our Field
pagenum: 175
authors: Mrs. Ewing; title: Lion by Moonlight
pagenum: 188
authors: Richard Parker
subtitle: from Lion at Large; title: Daddy-Long-Legs
pagenum: 196
authors: Jean Webster
subtitle: an extract; title: President Cleveland, Where Are You?
pagenum: 206
authors: Robert Cormier; title: The Golden Darters
pagenum: 220
authors: Elizabeth Winthrop; title: Goat's Tobacco
pagenum: 232
authors: Roald Dahl
subtitle: from Boy-Tales of a Childhood; title: The Ladder
pagenum: 238
authors: V. S. Pritchett; title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: 256