Best shorts :  favorite short stories for sharing / 
selected by Avi with Carolyn Shute ; [with an afterword by Katherine Paterson ; art by Chris Raschka]. 
 - Boston :  Houghton Mifflin,  2006. 
 - ix, 342 p. :  ill ;  22 cm. 
<br/><br/>Rogue wave / by Theodore Taylor -- The caller / by Robert D. San Souci -- Scout's honor / by Avi -- The dog of Pompeii / by Louis Untermeyer -- LAFFF / by Lensey Namioka -- Rip Van Winkle / by Washington Irving -- Nuts / by Natalie Babbitt -- Flight of the swan / by Marian Flandrick Bray -- Ho-Ichi the Earless / by Rafe Martin -- The lady who put salt in her coffee / by Lucrecia Hale -- The town cats / by Lloyd Alexander -- Zlatah the goat / by Isaac Bashevis Singer -- To starch a spook / by Andrew Benedict -- The night of the pomegranate / by Tim Wynne-Jones -- The librarian and the robbers / by Margaret Mahy -- The woman in the snow / by Patricia McKissack -- The binnacle boy / by Paul Fleischman -- The baby in the night deposit box / by Megan Whalen Turner -- The circuit / by Francisco Jiménez -- The Widow Carey's chickens / by Gerald Hausman -- The special powers of Blossom Culp / by Richard Peck -- A white heron / by Sarah Orne Jewett -- Jimmy takes vanishing lessons / by Walter R. Brooks -- The lady or the tiger? / by Frank Stockton. 
<br/><br/> School Library Journal.  Wilson's Children.  Wilson's Junior High School. 
<br/><br/> Presents a collection of old and new short stories for young readers including "Rip Van Winkle" by Washington Irving, "The Town Cats" by Lloyd Alexander, and "Scout's Honor" by Avi. 
<br/><br/> 5.9  Follett Library Resources.  3-6  Follett Library Resources. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0618476032 (trade) 1428703837 (Follett bdg.) 9780618476039 (trade) 9781428703834 (Follett bdg.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2006011535 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Children's stories.<br/>Short stories.<br/>Short stories.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PZ5  / .B4313 2006 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>[Fic]