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Author
Publisher
Starscape
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Description
Bizarre tales of a teenager going to the school dance with a robot, a Thanksgiving dinner interrupted by turkeys looking for revenge, and other strange short stories.
Author
Publisher
Page Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Mystery. Humor. Happy stories. Sad stories. The unusual. This little book of short stories covers it all. And overall, you meet a range of interesting, real-life people. You will identify with the residents of a small town, probably not unlike your own. You will laugh as you follow an elderly couple on an overnight getaway trip. You will empathize with a young girl who becomes a woman under some of the harshest circumstances you could imagine. You...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"A dark and bitingly humorous collection of short stories from the "brilliantly evocative" (Time) Paul Theroux A family watches in horror as their patriarch transforms into the singing, wise-cracking lead of an old-timey minstrel show. A renowned art collector relishes publicly destroying his most valuable pieces. Two boys stand by helplessly as their father stages an all-consuming war on the raccoons living in the woods around their house. A young...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Company
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
A compilation of short fiction includes the title story about a woman's recovery from cancer, as well as "Pagans, " a retrospective about the dangerous games played by a girl and two boys in their youth, and "Her First Elk, " in which a woman recalls her first elk hunt.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Told in the intimate voices of complex, endearing characters, Five Tuesdays in Winter intriguingly subverts expectations as it explores desire, loss, jolting violence, and the inexorable tug toward love at all costs."--Dust jacket flap.
"With Writers & Lovers and Euphoria, Lily King's books catapulted onto bestseller and best-of-the-year lists across the country, further cementing her reputation as one of the most "brilliant" (NYTBR), "wildly talented"...
Author
Publisher
Small Beer Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"We think we're all moving together through space and time at the same speed and in the same direction, yet the universe is far stranger than that. The stories in this collection explore and celebrate this world and others and characters who are trying to make sense of the people they meet, what they see, and the challenges they face"--
"In her first North American collection, Vandana Singh's deep humanism interplays with her scientific background...
100) Down the rabbit hole
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Enter a wonderland of mesmerizing tales. It's a place that's neither here nor there, where things are never quite as they seem. Inspired by Lewis Carroll's whimsical masterpiece, ranging from the impossible to the mad to the curiouser, these stories will have you absolutely off your head.