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From One Experience to Another : Award-Winning Authors Sharing Real-Life Experiences Through Fiction
From One Experience to Another AwardWinning Authors Sharing RealLife Experiences Through Fiction Author:M. Jerry Weiss (Editor), Helen S. Weiss (Editor) Fifteen of the most distinguished and award-winning authors for young adults draw upon their own experiences to create fictional stories that explore adolescence: everything from dating and love, the meaning and boundaries of friendship, fitting in, and measuring up to finding the courage to believe in oneself. — Each story was specially commissi... more »oned for this collection, and includes an introductory essay by the author explaining the story's origin in the author's life--and its significance.
My brother's keeper / Jay Bennett --
Truth about sharks / Joan Bauer --
Game of war / Herb Karl --
Hamish Mactavish is eating a bus / Gordon Korman --
Sunrise over Manaus / Walter Dean Myers --
No matter what / Joan Lowery Nixon --
Most important night of Melanie's life / Richard Peck --
Young blue eyes / Susan Beth Pfeffer --
Blue moon in a white sky / Nancy Springer --
Dozens of roses: A story for voices / Virginia Euwer Wolff --
Klesmer / Suzanne Fisher Staples --
"White" real estate / Sharon Dennis Wyeth --
Wedding cake in the middle of the road / Judith Gorog --