Altogether, One at a Time

By Gail E. Haley and E.L. Konigsburg

Book Overview

Newbery Medal-winning author of From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler E.L. Konigsburg brings "her offhand humor and her perceptive empathy" (Kirkus Reviews) to this illustrated middle grade short story collection of everyday worries.

What do you do when your mother makes you invite the most obnoxious kid in your class to your birthday party? Or when you have to wait another thirty-three and a third years to see a shower of stars? Or your parents ship you off to fat camp? Or you have to share your private lunch hour with a girl who's mean to you just because of the color of your skin?

E. L. Konigsburg's witty and affecting short stories show four young people weather unusual, even uncomfortable, situations and, in the process, learn something that changes their lives.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1416955011
• ISBN13: 9781416955016
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.2" x 7.6"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

Camp Fat

Short stories written with the flair for supernatural of Konigsburg, I found the selection, Camp Fat the most intriguing. Along with a visit from a ghost comes a lesson of the psychological reasons children are fat. Those issues must be acknowledged before they can lose weight.

Very Good!

I love this book very much. What exquisite stories and beautiful illustrations! I have discovered a lot of things through these five short stories. Each story has a truth of life.