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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].

Publication Info. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2006.
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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Children's & Young Adult Collection  CH/YA Fic Avi Bes 2006    Available  ---  Gift of Phyllis Fantauzzo.
Description ix, 342 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Contents Rogue wave / Theodore Taylor -- Caller / Robert D. San Souci -- Scout's honor / Avi -- 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 -- Lady who put salt in her coffee / Lucretia P. Hale -- Town cats / Lloyd Alexander -- Zlateh the goat / Isaac Bashevis Singer -- To starch a spook / Andrew Benedict -- Night of the pomegranate / Tim Wynne-Jones -- Librarian and the robbers / Margaret Mahy -- Woman in the snow / Patricia McKissack -- Binnacle boy / Paul Fleischman -- Baby in the night deposit box / Megan Whalen Turner -- Circuit / Francisco Jiménez -- Widow Carey's chickens / Gerald Hausman -- Special powers of Blossom Culp / Richard Peck -- A white heron / Sarah Orne Jewett -- Jimmy takes vanishing lessons / Walter R. Brooks -- 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.
Provenance Gift of Phyllis Fantauzzo.
Subject Children's stories.
Children's stories.
Genre/Form Short stories.
Fiction.
Fiction.
Added Author Avi, 1937-
Shute, Carolyn.
Paterson, Katherine.
Raschka, Christopher, illustrator.
Added Title Caller.
Dog of Pompeii.
Lady who put salt in her coffee.
Town cats.
Night of the pomegranate.
Librarian and the robbers.
Woman in the snow.
Binnacle boy.
Baby in the night deposit box.
Circuit.
Widow Carey's chickens.
Special powers of Blossom Culp.
White heron.
Lady or the tiger?
ISBN 0618476032
9780618476039

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