In the overlapping years when childhood and adolescence blend and shift like waves and sand, nothing is certain and everything is changing. Now award-winning author Avi creates seven astonishing portraits of life in the middle-school years. In these stories you will meet, among others William, of "What Do Fish Have to Do with Anything?", who wonders why he shouldn't ask questions that have no answers. Is it because he might discover the truth? A minister's son, the baddest of the bad, is dared to be good in "The Goodness of Matt Kaizer". And in the chilling tale "Pets", Eve is haunted by the ghosts of her cats. Always with a surprise built in, an angle unseen, these are stories that step just beyond the edge of the everyday.
- ISBN10 0763604127
- ISBN13 9780763604127
- Publish Date 8 April 1999 (first published 13 January 1998)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 24 December 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Walker Books Ltd
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 202
- Language English