Author: David Levithan
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0375849424
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
Just in time for Valentine’s Day comes a confection from David Levithan that is sure to have fans of Boy Meets Boy eager to devour it. Here are 18 stories, all about love, all kinds of love. From the aching for the one you pine for, to standing up and speaking up for the one you love, to pure joy and happiness, these love stories run the gamut of that emotion that at some point has turned every one of us inside out and upside down. What is love? With this original story collection, David Levithan proves that love is a many splendored thing, a varied, complicated, addictive, wonderful thing.
How They Met and Other Stories
Author: David Levithan
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0375849424
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
Just in time for Valentine’s Day comes a confection from David Levithan that is sure to have fans of Boy Meets Boy eager to devour it. Here are 18 stories, all about love, all kinds of love. From the aching for the one you pine for, to standing up and speaking up for the one you love, to pure joy and happiness, these love stories run the gamut of that emotion that at some point has turned every one of us inside out and upside down. What is love? With this original story collection, David Levithan proves that love is a many splendored thing, a varied, complicated, addictive, wonderful thing.
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0375849424
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
Just in time for Valentine’s Day comes a confection from David Levithan that is sure to have fans of Boy Meets Boy eager to devour it. Here are 18 stories, all about love, all kinds of love. From the aching for the one you pine for, to standing up and speaking up for the one you love, to pure joy and happiness, these love stories run the gamut of that emotion that at some point has turned every one of us inside out and upside down. What is love? With this original story collection, David Levithan proves that love is a many splendored thing, a varied, complicated, addictive, wonderful thing.
Fox & Chick: The Party
Author: Sergio Ruzzier
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 9781452152882
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
A 2019 Theodore Seuss Geisel Award Honoree NPR Best Books of the Year, New York Times Notable Children's Book, Boston Globe Best Book of the Year Join the dynamic, yet opposite duo as they learn to appreciate differences among friends: Fox and Chick don't always agree, but Fox and Chick are always friends. With sly humor and companionable warmth, Sergio Ruzzier deftly captures the adventures of these seemingly opposite friends. With spare text and airy images, this early chapter book is also accessible to a picture book audience. • Book teaches a lesson about accepting and cherishing our differences through sweet and funny characters as they embark on silly adventures • Luminous watercolor images showcased in comic-book panel form will entice emerging readers, keeping them engaged and wanting more • Sergio Ruzzier is a Sendak Fellow whose work has been lauded by the Society of Illustrators, Communication Arts, and the Society of Publication Designers "A subtle lesson, couched in humor: We can be friends with people who aren't just like us." — The New York Times • Great family and classroom read-aloud book • Books for kids ages 5-8 • Books for early and emergent readers
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 9781452152882
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
A 2019 Theodore Seuss Geisel Award Honoree NPR Best Books of the Year, New York Times Notable Children's Book, Boston Globe Best Book of the Year Join the dynamic, yet opposite duo as they learn to appreciate differences among friends: Fox and Chick don't always agree, but Fox and Chick are always friends. With sly humor and companionable warmth, Sergio Ruzzier deftly captures the adventures of these seemingly opposite friends. With spare text and airy images, this early chapter book is also accessible to a picture book audience. • Book teaches a lesson about accepting and cherishing our differences through sweet and funny characters as they embark on silly adventures • Luminous watercolor images showcased in comic-book panel form will entice emerging readers, keeping them engaged and wanting more • Sergio Ruzzier is a Sendak Fellow whose work has been lauded by the Society of Illustrators, Communication Arts, and the Society of Publication Designers "A subtle lesson, couched in humor: We can be friends with people who aren't just like us." — The New York Times • Great family and classroom read-aloud book • Books for kids ages 5-8 • Books for early and emergent readers
I Need a New Bum! and Other Stories
Author: Dawn McMillan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780947506322
Category : Beaches
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
With their unique brand of rhyme, crazy humour and zany drawings, Dawn McMillan and Ross Kinnaird have become a favourite with kids worldwide. Together with the bestselling I Need a New Bum!, this special collection returns to print two other hilarious tales: Doggy Doo on my Shoe and Seagull Sid (and the naughty things his seagulls did!).
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780947506322
Category : Beaches
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
With their unique brand of rhyme, crazy humour and zany drawings, Dawn McMillan and Ross Kinnaird have become a favourite with kids worldwide. Together with the bestselling I Need a New Bum!, this special collection returns to print two other hilarious tales: Doggy Doo on my Shoe and Seagull Sid (and the naughty things his seagulls did!).
Flying Lessons & Other Stories
Author: Kwame Alexander
Publisher: Yearling
ISBN: 110193462X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Whether it is basketball dreams, family fiascos, first crushes, or new neighborhoods, this bold short story collection—written by some of the best children’s authors including Kwame Alexander, Meg Medina, Jacqueline Woodson, and many more and published in partnership with We Need Diverse Books—celebrates the uniqueness and universality in all of us. "Will resonate with any kid who's ever felt different—which is to say, every kid." —Time Great stories take flight in this adventurous middle-grade anthology crafted by ten of the most recognizable and diverse authors writing today. Newbery Medalist Kwame Alexander delivers a story in-verse about a boy who just might have magical powers; National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson spins a tale of friendship against all odds; and Meg Medina uses wet paint to color in one girl’s world with a short story that inspired her Newbery award-winner Merci Suárez Changes Gear. Plus, seven more bold voices that bring this collection to new heights with tales that challenge, inspire, and celebrate the unique talents within us all. AUTHORS INCLUDE: Kwame Alexander, Kelly J. Baptist, Soman Chainani, Matt de la Peña, Tim Federle, Grace Lin, Meg Medina, Walter Dean Myers, Tim Tingle, Jacqueline Woodson “There’s plenty of magic in this collection to go around.” —Booklist, Starred “A natural for middle school classrooms and libraries.” —Kirkus Reviews, Starred “Inclusive, authentic, and eminently readable.” —School Library Journal, Starred “Thought provoking and wide-ranging . . . should not be missed.”—Publishers Weekly, Starred “Read more books by these authors.” —The Bulletin, Starred
Publisher: Yearling
ISBN: 110193462X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Whether it is basketball dreams, family fiascos, first crushes, or new neighborhoods, this bold short story collection—written by some of the best children’s authors including Kwame Alexander, Meg Medina, Jacqueline Woodson, and many more and published in partnership with We Need Diverse Books—celebrates the uniqueness and universality in all of us. "Will resonate with any kid who's ever felt different—which is to say, every kid." —Time Great stories take flight in this adventurous middle-grade anthology crafted by ten of the most recognizable and diverse authors writing today. Newbery Medalist Kwame Alexander delivers a story in-verse about a boy who just might have magical powers; National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson spins a tale of friendship against all odds; and Meg Medina uses wet paint to color in one girl’s world with a short story that inspired her Newbery award-winner Merci Suárez Changes Gear. Plus, seven more bold voices that bring this collection to new heights with tales that challenge, inspire, and celebrate the unique talents within us all. AUTHORS INCLUDE: Kwame Alexander, Kelly J. Baptist, Soman Chainani, Matt de la Peña, Tim Federle, Grace Lin, Meg Medina, Walter Dean Myers, Tim Tingle, Jacqueline Woodson “There’s plenty of magic in this collection to go around.” —Booklist, Starred “A natural for middle school classrooms and libraries.” —Kirkus Reviews, Starred “Inclusive, authentic, and eminently readable.” —School Library Journal, Starred “Thought provoking and wide-ranging . . . should not be missed.”—Publishers Weekly, Starred “Read more books by these authors.” —The Bulletin, Starred
Here I Come and Other Stories
Author: Alex Jennings
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781370390205
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
HERE IT IS!An irascible red-faced man offers to accompany a young woman across town for "a donut with extra salt!" A boy with wild hair and crude tattoos appears at Brass Monkey's day job looking for more than a latte. An offshore oil rig worker returns home to find that his childhood best friend has died and that death has finally given his life direction.Let Alex Jennings be your tour guide through a haunted world full of clinically-depressed ghosts, activist zombies, and out-of-phase pop stars! These 13 short stories in the author's debut collection will thrill you, tantalize you, and break your heart. Ranging from Urban Fantasy, to Super-heroic adventure, to bone-chilling horror, Alex Jennings' stories offer something for everyone. Originally published in 2012, this updated edition of Here I Come boasts updated versions of several stories.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781370390205
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
HERE IT IS!An irascible red-faced man offers to accompany a young woman across town for "a donut with extra salt!" A boy with wild hair and crude tattoos appears at Brass Monkey's day job looking for more than a latte. An offshore oil rig worker returns home to find that his childhood best friend has died and that death has finally given his life direction.Let Alex Jennings be your tour guide through a haunted world full of clinically-depressed ghosts, activist zombies, and out-of-phase pop stars! These 13 short stories in the author's debut collection will thrill you, tantalize you, and break your heart. Ranging from Urban Fantasy, to Super-heroic adventure, to bone-chilling horror, Alex Jennings' stories offer something for everyone. Originally published in 2012, this updated edition of Here I Come boasts updated versions of several stories.
Reality and Other Stories
Author: John Lanchester
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393540928
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
A Kirkus Reviews Best Short Fiction of 2021 Selection Ghost stories for the digital age by the Booker Prize–longlisted author of The Wall. In 2017, inspired in part by Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw, the acclaimed English novelist John Lanchester published a ghost story in The New Yorker. "Signal," an eerie story of contemporary life and the perils of technology, was a sensation among readers—and since then Lanchester has written several more. Reality and Other Stories gathers the best of these, taking readers to an uncanny world familiar to fans of The Twilight Zone or Black Mirror. Household gizmos with a mind of their own. Mysterious cell-phone calls from unknown numbers. Reality TV shows and the creeping suspicion that none of this is real… Reality and Other Stories is a book of disquiet that captures the severe disconnection and distraction of our time.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393540928
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
A Kirkus Reviews Best Short Fiction of 2021 Selection Ghost stories for the digital age by the Booker Prize–longlisted author of The Wall. In 2017, inspired in part by Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw, the acclaimed English novelist John Lanchester published a ghost story in The New Yorker. "Signal," an eerie story of contemporary life and the perils of technology, was a sensation among readers—and since then Lanchester has written several more. Reality and Other Stories gathers the best of these, taking readers to an uncanny world familiar to fans of The Twilight Zone or Black Mirror. Household gizmos with a mind of their own. Mysterious cell-phone calls from unknown numbers. Reality TV shows and the creeping suspicion that none of this is real… Reality and Other Stories is a book of disquiet that captures the severe disconnection and distraction of our time.
Milk and Other Stories
Author: Simon Fruelund
Publisher: Santa Fe Writers Project
ISBN: 1939650003
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
The 14 stories in this collection display the often quiet, inconspicuous way in which terrible truths and experiences are intimated: the death of a sailboarder makes a widower see deeper into love and loss; a young poet visits his former teacher only to discover he is literally not the person he used to be; a middle-aged man glimpses the terrible humdrum of his third marriage as his son embarks on a new chapter in his life. Conveyed without grandeur or pathos, the revelations in these minimalist stories demonstrate clearly and effectively Fruelund’s gift of subtlety and nuance; like scenes from life, characters’ dramas are played out in brief but brilliant flashes. Ranging across the wide arc of human experience, from the comic to the tragic, each piece explores the complex emotions of the human heart.
Publisher: Santa Fe Writers Project
ISBN: 1939650003
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
The 14 stories in this collection display the often quiet, inconspicuous way in which terrible truths and experiences are intimated: the death of a sailboarder makes a widower see deeper into love and loss; a young poet visits his former teacher only to discover he is literally not the person he used to be; a middle-aged man glimpses the terrible humdrum of his third marriage as his son embarks on a new chapter in his life. Conveyed without grandeur or pathos, the revelations in these minimalist stories demonstrate clearly and effectively Fruelund’s gift of subtlety and nuance; like scenes from life, characters’ dramas are played out in brief but brilliant flashes. Ranging across the wide arc of human experience, from the comic to the tragic, each piece explores the complex emotions of the human heart.
We Show what We Have Learned & Other Stories
Author: Clare Beams
Publisher: Lookout Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Winner of the Bard Fiction Prize and a finalist for the PEN/Bingham Prize, Young Lions Fiction Award, and Shirley Jackson Awards Joyce Carol Oates calls this debut author "wickedly sharp-eyed, wholly unpredictable...a female/feminist voice for the twenty-first century." The literary, historic, and fantastic collide in these wise and exquisitely unsettling stories.
Publisher: Lookout Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Winner of the Bard Fiction Prize and a finalist for the PEN/Bingham Prize, Young Lions Fiction Award, and Shirley Jackson Awards Joyce Carol Oates calls this debut author "wickedly sharp-eyed, wholly unpredictable...a female/feminist voice for the twenty-first century." The literary, historic, and fantastic collide in these wise and exquisitely unsettling stories.
The Rivals and Other Stories
Author: Jonah Rosenfeld
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 0815654936
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
A major literary figure and frequent contributor to the Yiddish-language newspaper Forverts from the 1920s to the mid-1930s, Jonah Rosenfeld was recognized during and after his lifetime as an explorer of human psychology. His work foregrounds loneliness, social anxiety, and people’s frustrated longing for meaningful relationships—themes just as relevant to today’s Western society as they were during his era. The Rivals and Other Stories introduces nineteen of Rosenfeld’s short stories to an English-reading audience for the first time. Unlike much of Yiddish literature that offers a sentimentalized view of the tight knit communities of early twentieth-century Jewish life, Rosenfeld’s stories portray an entirely different view of pre-war Jewish families. His stories are urban, domestic dramas that probe the often painful disjunctions between men and women, parents and children, rich and poor, Jews and Gentiles, self and society. They explore eroticism and family dysfunction in narratives that were often shocking to readers at the time they were published. Following the Modernist tradition, Rosenfeld rejected many established norms, such as religion and the assumption of absolute truth. Rather, his work is rooted in psychological realism, portraying the inner lives of alienated individuals who struggle to construct a world in which they can live. These deeply moving, empathetic stories provide a counterbalance to the prevailing idealized portrait of shtetl life and enrich our understanding of Yiddish literature.
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 0815654936
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
A major literary figure and frequent contributor to the Yiddish-language newspaper Forverts from the 1920s to the mid-1930s, Jonah Rosenfeld was recognized during and after his lifetime as an explorer of human psychology. His work foregrounds loneliness, social anxiety, and people’s frustrated longing for meaningful relationships—themes just as relevant to today’s Western society as they were during his era. The Rivals and Other Stories introduces nineteen of Rosenfeld’s short stories to an English-reading audience for the first time. Unlike much of Yiddish literature that offers a sentimentalized view of the tight knit communities of early twentieth-century Jewish life, Rosenfeld’s stories portray an entirely different view of pre-war Jewish families. His stories are urban, domestic dramas that probe the often painful disjunctions between men and women, parents and children, rich and poor, Jews and Gentiles, self and society. They explore eroticism and family dysfunction in narratives that were often shocking to readers at the time they were published. Following the Modernist tradition, Rosenfeld rejected many established norms, such as religion and the assumption of absolute truth. Rather, his work is rooted in psychological realism, portraying the inner lives of alienated individuals who struggle to construct a world in which they can live. These deeply moving, empathetic stories provide a counterbalance to the prevailing idealized portrait of shtetl life and enrich our understanding of Yiddish literature.
I'm Waiting for You
Author: Kim Bo-young
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062951483
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
The acclaimed South Korean author explores two worlds, four stories, and infinite possibilities in this “breath-taking” speculative fiction collection (Bong Joon-ho, Oscar–winning director of Parasite). Available in English for the first time, this volume presents two pairs of thematically interconnected stories by celebrated writer Kim Bo-Young. In “I’m Waiting for You” and “On My Way,” an engaged couple coordinate their separate missions to distant corners of the galaxy to ensure—through relativity—they can arrive back on Earth simultaneously to make it down the aisle. But small incidents wreak havoc on space and time, driving their wedding date further away. As centuries on Earth pass, one thing is constant: the desire of the lovers to be together. In “The Prophet of Corruption” and “That One Life,” humanity is viewed through the eyes of its godlike creators for whom everything on Earth is an extension of their will. When one of them questions this arrangement, it is deemed a perversion—a disease—that must be excised and cured. Yet the Prophet Naban, whose “child” is rebelling, isn’t sure the rebellion is wrong. What if that which is considered criminal is instead the natural order—and those who condemn it corrupt? Exploring the dichotomy between the philosophical and the corporeal, Kim considers the most basic of questions: who am I?
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062951483
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
The acclaimed South Korean author explores two worlds, four stories, and infinite possibilities in this “breath-taking” speculative fiction collection (Bong Joon-ho, Oscar–winning director of Parasite). Available in English for the first time, this volume presents two pairs of thematically interconnected stories by celebrated writer Kim Bo-Young. In “I’m Waiting for You” and “On My Way,” an engaged couple coordinate their separate missions to distant corners of the galaxy to ensure—through relativity—they can arrive back on Earth simultaneously to make it down the aisle. But small incidents wreak havoc on space and time, driving their wedding date further away. As centuries on Earth pass, one thing is constant: the desire of the lovers to be together. In “The Prophet of Corruption” and “That One Life,” humanity is viewed through the eyes of its godlike creators for whom everything on Earth is an extension of their will. When one of them questions this arrangement, it is deemed a perversion—a disease—that must be excised and cured. Yet the Prophet Naban, whose “child” is rebelling, isn’t sure the rebellion is wrong. What if that which is considered criminal is instead the natural order—and those who condemn it corrupt? Exploring the dichotomy between the philosophical and the corporeal, Kim considers the most basic of questions: who am I?