Connections

by Donald R. Gallo, Chris Crutcher, T. Ernesto Bethancourt, et al.

Book Overview

Connections : a combination of seventeen short stories by today's most popular writers for young adults, portraying encounters and clashes among teenagers, as well as some surprises and insights into... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385298153
• ISBN13: 9780385298155
• Release Date: October 1989
• Publisher: Delacorte Press
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

An excellent collection of short stories for young adults

I am so pleased to see this book back in print. I first used this book in a summer school class for entering freshmen six years ago, and my students loved it. There are wonderful stories to be found here, from some of the best writers of young adult fiction in the business. Chris Crutcher's "A Brief Moment in the Life of Angus Bethune" is probably the best of the book (and far better than the movie "Angus"). There is also an absolutely first-rate rarity, the second-person point of view story, in Gordon Korman's hilarious "A Reasonable Sum." If you're a teacher looking for some contemporary short stories for teenagers, or you just love to read well-written stories, then "Connections" is a great find.