Eighth Grade Writers: Stories of Friendship, Passage, and Discovery by Eighth Grade Writers

by Christine Lord (Editor)

Selected by the New York Public Library as a Book for the Teen Age in 1997. Features 12 stories including a mock-heroic tale of disgusting but funny initiation rites endured by kids seeking admittance to a secret boys' club, a gentle and funny story of adolescent guys on the prowl, happily willing to embarrass each other in order to impress a girl and a story of family love that draws the reader into the everyday life of a slave mother and her child in the pre-Civil War South. Stories are indexed by genre--by topic, and for use as writing models.

144 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1996