Small Avalanches and Other Stories
"I myself am a secret." -- from How I Contemplated the World . . . When the sky blue ball comes soaring over the fence, a high-school girl is confronted with the haunting memory of her childhood. A jealous teen lets her cousin go off alone with a dangerous capricorn, aware of the terrifying...
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"I myself am a secret." -- from How I Contemplated the World . . . When the sky blue ball comes soaring over the fence, a high-school girl is confronted with the haunting memory of her childhood. A jealous teen lets her cousin go off alone with a dangerous capricorn, aware of the terrifying possibilities. A vulnerable young girl cunningly outwits a menacing stranger and exults in her newfound power, surviving the first of many small avalanches. Intense and unnerving, uplifting and triumphant, the twelve stories in this riveting collection explore the fateful consequences of the choices we make in our everyday lives.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780060012199 (0060012196)
Publish date: February 17th 2004
Publisher: Harper Teen
Pages no: 400
Edition language: English
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