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Best shorts : favorite short stories for sharing
- Title
- Best shorts : favorite short stories for sharing / selected by Avi with Carolyn Shute ; [with an afterword by Katherine Paterson ; illustrations by Chris Raschka].
- Publication
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2006.
- Supplementary Content
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- ix, 342 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
- Subject
- Short stories
- Contents
- Rogue wave / by Theodore Taylor -- The caller / by Robert D. San Souci -- Scout's honor / by Avi -- The dog of Pompeii / by Louis Untermeyer -- LAFFF / by Lensey Namioka -- Rip Van Winkle / by Washington Irving -- Nuts / by Natalie Babbitt -- Flight of the swan / by Marian Flandrick Bray -- Ho-ichi the Earless / by Rafe Martin -- The lady who put salt in her coffee / by Lucretia P. Hale -- The town cats / by Lloyd Alexander -- Zlateh the goat / by Isaac Bashevis Singer -- To starch a spook / by Andrew Benedict -- The night of the pomegranate / by Tim Wynne-Jones -- The librarian and the robbers / by Margaret Mahy -- The woman in the snow / by Patricia McKissack -- The binnacle boy / by Paul Fleischman -- The baby in the night deposit box / by Megan Whalen Turner -- The circuit / by Francisco Jiménez -- The Widow Carey's chickens / by Gerald Hausman -- The special powers of Blossom Culp / by Richard Peck -- A white heron / by Sarah Orne Jewett -- Jimmy takes vanishing lessons / by Walter R. Brooks -- The lady or the tiger? / by Frank Stockton.
- Call Number
- J 808.83 B
- ISBN
- 0618476032
- 9780618476039
- LCCN
- 2006011535
- 9780618476039
- OCLC
- 68786632
- Title
- Best shorts : favorite short stories for sharing / selected by Avi with Carolyn Shute ; [with an afterword by Katherine Paterson ; illustrations by Chris Raschka].
- Imprint
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2006.
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- Added Author
- Avi, 1937-Shute, Carolyn.Paterson, Katherine.Raschka, Christopher, ill.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 9780618476039
- Research Call Number
- J 808.83 B