Product Details
Atheneum, August 1988
Trade Paperback, 96 pages
ISBN-10: 0689712634
ISBN-13: 9780689712630
Ages: 10 - 14
Awards and Nominations
- Notable Children's Trade Book Language (AR)
- School Library Journal Best Books of the Year
Description
Here are twelve deeply moving short stories from the perceptive pen of Cynthia Rylant. Each captures the moment when someone's life changes -- when an animal causes a human being to see things in a different way, and, perhaps, changes his life.
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