Dude! Stories and Stuff for Boys : Stories and Stuff for Boys

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Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2006-08-03
Publisher(s): Dutton Juvenile
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Summary

Growing up as a guy is tough. Here are nineteen funny, fascinating, totally original works about boys tackling the tricky years that separate a child from a man. Jane Yolen spotlights the beginning of an Olympic dream; Jaime Adoff offers the music of a young poet facing rough streets; Barbara Robinson captures the tenderness between a boy and a most unusual pet; Ron Koertge explores the weird world where guys and girls meet. From futuristic to familiar to far-out, the voices of clever, hopeful, courageous young men shine in this eclectic celebration of boys on the verge.

Author Biography

Sandy Asher is the author of twenty books for young readers and more than three dozen plays. She is also the editor or co-editor of five collections of fiction, including Dude! Stories and Stuff for Boy, On Her Way: Stories and Poems about Growing Up Girl and With All My Heart, With All My Mind: 13 Stories about Growing Up Jewish -- winner of the 1999 National Jewish Book Award in children's literature. Sandy has been honored with the American Alliance for Theatre and Education's Charlotte Chorpenning Award for a distinguished body of work in theatre for young audiences, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship grant, and an Aurand Harris Playwriting Fellowship from the Children’s Theatre Foundation of America. She lives in Lancaster, PA, with husband Harvey, dog Rudy, and cats Natasha and Stanley.

Table of Contents

Hey, Dudes! ix
The Tower
3(20)
Sneed B. Collard III
The Squids
23(17)
Walter Simonson
Take It From Me, Kid
40(2)
David L. Harrison
A Pet for Calvin
42(11)
Barbara Robinson
The Chinese Boy
53(5)
Clyde Robert Bulla
Heroes and Villains
58(20)
Liam Kuhn
The Marooned Boy
78(16)
Richard Alan Young
Class Trip
94(21)
Joseph Robinette
Oh, Brother
115(3)
Sandy Asher
Watermelon Kisses
118(15)
Jose Cruz Gonzalez
Going for Gold
133(1)
Jane Yolen
To Speak or Not to Speak
134(12)
Edwin Endlich
Family Meeting
146(14)
Bill C. Davis
The Enemy
160(20)
John Urquhart
Twelve
180(3)
Jaime Adoff
Lanky Boys with Cars
183(17)
Ron Koertge
Bucking Bales
200(24)
Raymond Bial
The Ten-Ton Accordion
224(17)
Barry Kornhauser
The Contributors and Their Work 241

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