Shelf life : stories by the book /
Gary Paulsen.
- New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2003.
- 173 p. ; 24 cm.
In your hat / by Ellen Conford -- Escape / by Margaret Peterson Haddix -- Follow the water / by Jennifer L. Holm -- Testing, testing 1, 2, 3 / by A. La Faye -- Tea party ends in bloody massacre / by Gregory Maguire -- What's a fellow to do / by Katharine Karr -- Wet hens / by Ellen Wittlinger -- The good deed / by Marion Dane Bauer -- Bacarole for paper & bones / by M.T. Anderson -- Clean sweep / by Joan Bauer.
Ten short stories in which the lives of young people in different circumstances are changed by their encounters with books.
0689841809
2002066901
Children's stories, American. Books and reading--Fiction. Short stories.