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edited by Ellen Oh
Flying lessons and other stories
x, 218 pages
Contents: How to transform an everyday, ordinary hoop court into a place of higher learning and you at the podium / Matt De La Penna -- The difficult path / Grace Lin -- Sol painting, Inc. / Meg Medina -- Secret Samantha / Tim Federle -- The beans and rice chronicles of Isaiah Dunn / Kelly J. Baptist -- Choctaw Bigfoot, midnight in the mountains / Tim Tingle -- Main street / Jacqueline Woodson -- Flying lessons / Soman Chainani -- Seventy-six dollars and forty-nine cents / Kwame Alexander -- Sometimes a dream needs a push / Walter Dean Myers
Summary: From basketball dreams and family fiascoes to first crushes and new neighborhoods, this anthology, written by award-winning children's authors, celebrates the uniqueness and universality in all of us