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On the fringe / edited by Donald R. Gallo.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- High schools--Juvenile fiction.
- High schools.
- Children's stories, American.
- High schools--Fiction.
- Schools--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Short stories.
- Fiction.
- Juvenile works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copy)
- Tehon, Susan (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 8 unnumbered pages, 224 pages, 6 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Dial Books, [2001]
- Summary:
- In every school at every grade, there's a pecking order among students -- an in crowd and those outside it, who are often ridiculed mercilessly for the "crime" of being different. This powerful anthology explores the teen outsider experience in electrifying, never-before-published stories by eleven of today's most acclaimed YA authors. A tomboy finds the relief of self-expression through her music, while in another tale a relentless bully tests the faith of an intensely religious girl. A cheerleader discovers that the true soul of her school can't be found within the cool clique; a football player finally stands up for a harassed fellow student; and a boy watches in horror as the school "freak" marches into his classroom with a loaded rifle.
- Offering insights into popularity and peer pressure, nonconformity and persecution, acceptance and hate, these riveting, provocative tales will leave readers thinking and start them talking.
- Contents:
- Geeks bearing gifts / Ron Koertge
- Great expectations / M.E. Kerr
- Shortcut / Nancy Werlin
- Through a window / Angela Johnson
- Muzak for Prozac / Jack Gantos
- Standing on the roof naked / Francess Lantz
- Mrs. Noonan / Graham Salisbury
- WWJD / Will Weaver
- Satyagraha / Alden R. Carter
- A letter from the fringe / Joan Bauer
- Guns for geeks / Chris Crutcher.
- Notes:
- "Designed by Kimi Weart"--t.p. verso.
- "Text set in Meridien."
- "Jacket design by Kimi Weart. Jacket photograph by Clair Alaska."--Dust jacket.
- Designed by Atha Tehon.
- Local Notes:
- Tehon Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Susan Tehon.
- Tehon Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- Other Format:
- Online version: On the fringe.
- ISBN:
- 0803726562
- 9780803726567
- OCLC:
- 44769202
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
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