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Authors: Bruce Coville
ISBN-13: 9780152058081, ISBN-10: 0152058087
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Date Published: September 2008
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Bruce Coville



BRUCE COVILLE has written more than ninety books for young readers, and he won the California Young Readers Medal for Jennifer Murdley’s Toad and for Armageddon Summer, cowritten with Jane Yolen. He lives in Syracuse, New York.

 

Book Synopsis

A new short story collection from the brilliantly bizarre Bruce Coville

Children's Literature

From stories ranging from weird to heartbreaking to thrilling, Coville has offered up a fantastic book depicting the fantastic. Every tale has its own magic that engulfs the reader and leaves him in a state of wonder. Both boys and girls are shown as the protagonists, overcoming their own fears and uncertainties to face unusual circumstances. In the tale of "The Mask of Eamonn Tiyado," a boy named Harley wore a Halloween mask to finally try on a new persona. In "The Ghost Let Go," two girls use their abilities to see spirits to help reconnect a family. A touch of science fiction brings an ultimatum to the human race in "In Our Own Hands," and a boy discovers an interesting branch of his family tree in "In the Frog King's Court." Some stories are rewritten and reprinted here from other collaborations, while three are making their debut. There is no excessive blood or gore to initiate the eerie adrenaline rush felt from reading these stories, just well-written suspense. Reviewer: Renee Farrah

Table of Contents

Contents

In Our Own Hands • 1

What’s the Worst That Could Happen? • 15

The Ghost Let Go • 37

In the Frog King’s Court • 73

The Thing in Auntie Alma’s Pond • 93

The Hardest, Kindest Gift • 115

The Mask of Eamonn Tiyado • 155

Herbert Hutchison in the Underworld • 187

The Boy with Silver Eyes • 205

a note from the author • 231

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