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Title:

Best shorts : favorite short stories for sharing / selected by Avi with Carolyn Shute ; [with an afterword by Katherine Paterson ; illustrations by Chris Raschka].

Publisher:

Houghton Mifflin,

Copyright Date:

2006

Description:

ix, 342 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Children's stories.
Short stories.

Other Authors:

Avi, 1937-
Shute, Carolyn.
Paterson, Katherine.
Raschka, Christopher, ill.

Contents:

The lady or the tiger? / Frank Stockton. 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 Jiménez -- 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.

Summary:

A collection of short stories written by some of the most entertaining and esteemed authors of children's literature.

ISBN:

9780618476039
0618476032

LCCN:

2006011535

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

CDPF771 -- Clive Public Library (Clive)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

UDAX314 -- Charles C. Myers Library (Dubuque)

EHPA605 -- Little Rock Public Library (Little Rock)

YIPB062 -- Shellsburg Public Library (Shellsburg)

90PB522 -- Springmier Community Library (Tiffin)

YWPD162 -- Tipton Public Library (Tipton)