Dark Starry Morning: Stories of This World and Beyond - Softcover
A collection of six stories follows the lives of young people who enter the unknown, such as Tommy and Eleanor, who take a school bus ride to the verge of eternity
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About the Author:
David Patneaude is an Albert Whitman author.
From School Library Journal:
Grade 6-8?Patneaude's curious collection of six short stories set mostly in the Pacific Northwest falls a little short of Twilight Zone eeriness (two selections have no supernatural elements at all), but still includes enough of those elements to make some of the tales compelling, especially to hi/lo readers. Each tale presents a gentle, wistful search for a perfect world free of real?or imagined?monsters. Most of the protagonists are junior-high students; each narrator chronicles a special event that helped him or her get through a tough adolescent time. Plots revolve around problems such as divorce, moving into a new house, a dying relative, saving the whales, and confronting bedroom fears. Jimi Hendrix, a spaceship, a victim of racism, a ghostly runner, and an alter-ego clown all play roles in these stories that occasionally flirt with sentimentality. On the whole, a mixed bag.?John Sigwald, Unger Memorial Library, Plainview, TX
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- PublisherAlbert Whitman & Co
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0807514756
- ISBN 13 9780807514757
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages123
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