From One Experience to Another : Award-Winning Authors Sharing Real-Life Experiences Through Fiction

by Edited by M. Jerry Weiss and Helen S. Weiss; with contributions by Avi, Joan Bau

• ISBN13: 9780312862534
• ISBN10: 0312862539
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 1997-08-15
• Publisher: Forge Books

Summary

Fifteen of the most distinguished authors for young adults draw upon experiences from their own childhoods to create fiction that explores adolescence: everything from the meaning and boundary of friendship, fitting in, measuring up, and finding the courage to believe in oneself. Authors include Avi, Herb Karl, Gordon Korman, Walter Dean Meyers, Joan Lowery Nixon, and Virginia Euwer Wolff.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	9	(2)
Publisher's Note	11	(4)
Jay Bennett
My Brother's Keeper	15	(16)
Joan Bauer
The Truth About Sharks	31	(18)
Herb Karl
A Game of War	49	(8)
Gordon Korman
Hamish Mactavish Is Eating a Bus	57	(16)
Walter Dean Myers
Sunrise Over Manaus	73	(16)
Joan Lowery Nixon
No Matter What	89	(16)
Richard Peck
The Most Important Night of Melanie's Life	105	(8)
Susan Beth Pfeffer
Young Blue Eyes	113	(12)
Nancy Springer
A Blue Moon in a White Sky	125	(16)
Virginia Euwer Wolff
Dozens of Roses: A Story for Voices	141	(6)
Suzanne Fisher Staples
Klesmer	147	(14)
Sharon Dennis Wyeth
"White" Real Estate	161	(16)
Judith Gorog
The Wedding Cake in the Middle of the Road	177	(10)
Neal Shusterman
Blue Diamond	187	(16)
Avi
Biderbiks Don't Cry	203	(18)
About the Authors	221