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Atheneum Books for Young Readers, October 2003
Hardcover, 288 pages
ISBN-10: 0689828632
ISBN-13: 9780689828638
Grades: 7 and up
Description
"If thirteen is supposed to be an unlucky number...you would think a civilized society could come up with a way for us to skip it."
-- from "What's the Worst That Could Happen?" by Bruce Coville
No one will want to skip any of the twelve short stories and one poem that make up this collection by some of the most celebrated contemporary writers of teen fiction. The big bar mitzvah that goes suddenly, wildly, hilariously out of control. A first kiss -- and a realization about one's sexual orientation. A crush on a girl that ends up putting the boy who likes her in the hospital. A pair of sneakers a kid has to have. By turns funny and sad, wrenching and poignant, the moments large and small described in these stories capture perfectly the agony and ecstasy of being thirteen.
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Browse Inside 13Girl.com.au, June 16, 2009
...tons of books, often teen books. I love Aussie writer Jaclyn Moriarty, Americans Jerry Spinelli, Sharon Creech and James Howe, and UK authors Meg Rosoff and Kevin Brooks. At the moment my fave reads are Seriously Sassy by Maggi Gibson and ...
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