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

by M. Jerry Weiss Helen S. Weiss Joan Abelove, 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

Reviews

[De’Andrea ♒️ · Rating 5 out of 5]

I couldn’t find Eleanora E. Tate’s short story “Big Things Come in Small Packages” on here by itself, so I’m just going to leave the review here: I’ve always wished that I could be a person like Tucker Willis, maybe I already am, but reading this short story really made me happy and made me realize that it doesn’t matter what people label you. As long as you know yourself and are confident in your abilities, you are enough!

Also, the plot twist of Richard Etheridge being a ghost really made my jaw drop. Not to mention, the narrator being married to Tucker? Get your man girl!

[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