Throwing Shadows - Softcover

Konigsburg, E. L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0689821204 ISBN 13: 9780689821202

Publisher: Macmillan, 1999

Synopsis

Here are five extraordinary short stories from the perceptive pen of E.I. Konigsburg. Each captures the moment when someone's life changes -- when a chance meeting between two people casts a shadow on what things have been like, and what they can become.

About this title

Review:

"Five short stories...all crisp and compactly tailored in setting forth their common theme of self-awareness." -- Booklist, starred review

"five short stories...all crisp and compactly tailored in setting forth their common theme of self-awareness."

-- Booklist, starred review

About the Author:

E.L. Konigsburg is the only author to have won the Newbery Medal and a Newbery Honor in the same year. In 1968, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler won the Newbery Medal and Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth was named a Newbery Honor Book. Almost thirty years later she won the Newbery Medal once again for The View from Saturday. Among her other acclaimed books are Silent to the Bone, The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place, and The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World.

About this edition

• Publisher: Macmillan
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0689821204
• ISBN 13: 9780689821202
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 151