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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. ▾Conversations (About links) No current Talk conversations about this book. » See also 1 mention » Add other authors Author name | Role | Type of author | Work? | Status | Avi | Editor | primary author | all editions | confirmed | Shute, Carolyn | Editor | main author | all editions | confirmed | Alexander, Lloyd | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Avi | Introduction | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Avi | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Babbitt, Natalie | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Benedict, Andrew | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Bray, Marian Flandrick | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Brooks, Walter R. | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Fleischman, Paul | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Hale, Lucretia P. | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Hausman, Gerald | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Irving, Washington | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Jewett, Sarah Orne | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Jimenez, Francisco | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Mahy, Margaret | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | McKissack, Patricia | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Namioka, Lensey | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Paterson, Katherine | Afterword | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Peck, Richard | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Rafe, Martin | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Raschka, Chris | Illustrator | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | San Souci, Robert D. | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Singer, Issac Bashevis | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Smallwood, Sheila | Book design | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Stockton, Frank | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Taylor, Theodore | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Turner, Megan Whalen | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Untermeyer, Louis | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Wynne-Jones, Tim | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed |
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Contains: - Rogue wave / Theodore Taylor
- The caller / Robert D. San Souci
- Scout's honor / Avi
- The dog of Pompeii / Louis Untermeyer
- LAFFF / Lensey Namioka
- Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving
- Nuts / Natalie Babbitt
- Flight of the swan / Marian Flandrick Bray
- Ho-ichi the Earless / Rafe Martin
- The lady who put salt in her coffee / Lucretia P. Hale
- The town cats / Lloyd Alexander
- Zlateh the goat / Isaac Bashevis Singer
- To starch a spook / Andrew Benedict
- The night of the pomegranate / Tim Wynne-Jones
- The librarian and the robbers / Margaret Mahy
- The woman in the snow / Patricia McKissack
- The binnacle boy / Paul Fleischman
- The baby in the night deposit box / Megan Whalen Turner
- The circuit / Francisco JimeĢnez
- The Widow Carey's chickens / Gerald Hausman
- The special powers of Blossom Culp / Richard Peck
- A white heron / Sarah Orne Jewett
- Jimmy takes vanishing lessons / Walter R. Brooks
- The lady or the tiger? / Frank Stockton
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In BEST SHORTS, you never know what surprise you're going to get next. Unlike many short story collections, which usually revolve around some thread of a theme, the stories Avi selected for this anthology come from all over the genre spectrum. The one thing they all have in common, however, is that they are all great little adventures you can experience without the big time commitment of an entire novel.
Readers can get freaked out by seeing what happens when Dad loses his cell phone at Auntie's funeral, travel along with some city-smart boys who try to camp out alone, and root for an entire bank who adopts a baby abandoned in the night-deposit box.
It's pretty slick how a well-written short story can suck you in; before you know it, you're reading a genre that you are sure you don't like. An interesting thing that happened to me as I read this compilation of stories is that I enjoyed stories in genres that I may never have picked up if they had been labeled. As I read these stories to my sixth-grade students, they wanted to get copies of their own. They, too, enjoyed the punch in these stories and the wide variety of styles and genres.
How can you go wrong with a book featuring stories from such authors as Richard Peck, Lloyd Alexander, Washington Irving, Theodore Taylor, and even Avi himself?
If you're looking for a sampler of authors or genres, or a few short stories to read between novels, or something to read without committing to an entire book, or you just feel like something a little different, then try BEST SHORTS on for size. It is one of those one-size-fits-all kind of collections. ( )