TY  - BOOK
AU  - Avi,
AU  - Raschka,Christopher
AU  - Shute,Carolyn
TI  - Best shorts: favorite short stories for sharing 
SN  - 0618476032 (trade)
AV  - PZ5 .B4313 2006
U1  - [Fic] 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Boston
PB  - Houghton Mifflin
KW  - Children's stories
KW  - Short stories
KW  - sears
N1  - 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; School Library Journal; Wilson's Children; Wilson's Junior High School; 5.9; Follett Library Resources; 3-6; Follett Library Resources
N2  - 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
ER  -