Half-human
By: edited and compiled by Bruce Coville ; photo illustrations by Marc Tauss.
Contributors: Coville, Bruce.; Tauss, Marc, ill.
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
Subjects: Animals, Mythical -- Juvenile fiction.; Children's stories, American.; Animals, Mythical -- Fiction.; Metamorphosis -- Fiction.; Identity -- Fiction.; Short stories.
Genres: Juvenile fiction.; Fiction.
Description: A collection of stories about such creatures as mermaids and centaurs, who are part-human and part-animal or part-plant, and their struggles to understand their true identity.
Table of contents: title: Becoming / Nancy Springer; title: Princess Dragonblood / Jude Mandell; title: How to make a human / Lawrence Schimel; title: Linnea / D.J. Malcolm; title: Soaring / Tim Waggoner; title: Water's edge / Janni Lee Simner; title: Elder brother / Tamora Pierce; title: Scarecrow / Gregory Maguire; title: Centaur Field / Jane Yolen; title: The hardest, kindest gift / Bruce Coville.