Lost & Found: Award-Winning Authors Sharing Real-Life Experiences Through Fiction

by M. Jerry Weiss (Editor), Helen S. Weiss (Editor)

From the editors of "From One Experience to Another comes a new collection featuring celebrated writers for young adults. Contributors include Newbery Medal winners Jerry Spinelli and Betsty Byars, Paul Zindel, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and Jon Scieszka, author of The Stinky Cheese Man & Other Fairly Stupid Tales, a New York Times "Notable Book of the Year." Other authors include T.A. Barron, Tamora Pearce, Mary Ann McGuigan, Lois Metzger, Mel Glenn, Joyce Hansen, Rich Wallace, Joan Abelove and Eleanora E. Tate.

Genres: Short Stories, Anthologies, Fiction, Young Adult

Hardcover

First published August 5, 2000

About the author

M. Jerry Weiss is Distinguished Service Professor of Communications Emeritus, New Jersey City University. A teacher, writer, and lecturer, he has won numerous awards and honors, including the 1997 International Reading Association Special Service Award and the National Council of Teachers of English Distinguished Service Award. He lives in Montclair, New Jersey.

Reviews

[Kelly · Rating 3 out of 5]

A good collection of short stories about school. Some were better than others. My favorites were, "Testing" by Tamora Pierce, "A Safe Space" by Joyce Hansen, and "Sproing!" by Joan Abelove.

[Betsy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good collection of ya short stories