On the Edge: Stories at the Brink

By Lois Duncan

Book Overview

In a third collection of riveting young adult short stories, following Night Terrors and Trapped!, Lois Duncan draws on her experience as the award-winning author of more than 40 young adult suspense... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0689832567
• ISBN13: 9780689832567
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: Simon Pulse
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.2" x 7.0"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12

Customer Reviews

Will keep you on the edge

This is an anthology (third in a series edited by Lois Duncan) concentrating on kids who are each "on the edge" in one way or another and how they deal with their individual issues.As is many anthology books, the stories are hit and miss but most of them kept my attentipn and many I thoroughly enjoyed. Personal favorates include "Pig Brains," by Alden Carter about a boy using unusual methods to get rid of a bully (funny and gross), and "Fine?" by Margaret Peterson Haddix, about a girl reasessing her life while waiting in the hospital for a diagnosis of her terminal illness (touching and brave). Many of the authors are new to me, but after reading their contributions I find myself wanting to check out their other works. This is a good book if you are looking to delve into the psychology of young adults today and discover some of the everyday - and sometimes not so everyday - hardships their endure. Overall an interesting read.