edited by James Howe
CMSW, hard cover, 278 pages
Great collection of short stories for 13-year-olds.
"What's the Worst That Could Happen" by Bruce Coville - funny piece about a boy with stage fright who agrees to help a girl with a skit just because he has a crush on her.
"Kate the Great" by Meg Cabot - a girl finally learns to stand up to her former friend while on a babysitting job
"If You Kiss a Boy" by Alex Sanchez - a boy kisses his friend and discovers homosexuality with advice from a kind teacher
"Thirteen and a Half" by Rachel Vail - a girl goes home with a classmate only to find her pet bird dead and the mother explains that she's actually had many birds over the years
"Jeremy Goldblatt Is So Not Moses" by James Howe - a great story about a boy's bar mitzvah and how he turns everything on its head through his kindness
"Black Holes and Basketball Sneakers" by Lori Aurelia Williams - a poor boy wants new shoes so that everyone will stop teasing him but his mother can't afford them and he gets involved with a gang
"Picky Eater" by Stephen Roos - a boy visits different neighbors to try to get better food than what his mom brings home from the school cafeteria. He is friendly to a neighbor boy who dies of an asthma attack
"Such Foolishness" - a poem about being 13
"Noodle Soup for Nincompoops" - a girl starts a column in the school newspaper and learns to be open with her best friend
"Squid Girl" by Todd Strasser - a girl on vacation with her nature-loving parents hopes to meet a cute boy and not look like a geek
"Angel & Aly" by Ron Koertge - two sisters are opposites until an alligator puppet turns the sweet sister hard. strange.
"Nobody Stole Jason Grayson" by Carolyn Mackler - when a quiet girl takes a photo of a popular boy from the open locker of the principal's daughter, chaos breaks out
"Tina the Teen Fairy" by Ann M. Martin and Laura Godwin - a pragmatic girl doesn't think that turning 13 is a big deal until a night-time visit from a fairy
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