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Half a Creature from the Sea: A Life in Stories
A unique contribution to the rather small genre of young adult short stories.
The Tightrope Walkers
Gr 9 Up—Dominic Hall is the son of a shipbuilder, living in modest conditions in mid-20th century England...
The True Tale of the Monster Billy Dean
Gr 9 Up—The opening scenes of this postapocalyptic, psychological novel describing the protagonist's confinement in a small, locked room is strongly reminiscent of Emma Donoghue's adult title Room (Little, Brown, 2010)...
The Boy Who Swam with Piranhas
Gr 5–7—When Stanley Potts's Uncle Ernie takes his fish-canning business in a new, inhumane direction, the orphaned boy decides to leave the home his relatives made for him and join a traveling carnival of Gypsies...
Mouse Bird Snake Wolf
Gr 2–6—In this original creation myth, set "long ago and far away, in a world rather like this one," the gods have left some things unfinished...
Slog's Dad
Gr 5—8—The spring after Davie's friend Slog loses his father, the two boys encounter a man on a bench whom Slog believes to be his dad, returned from heaven...
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