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Gr 7-10 These short stories by recognized young adult authors are compelling examples of contemporary literature dealing with all types of family issues. The subject material varies from Walter Dean Myers's powerful description of a father visiting his son on death row to Lois Lowry's tale of a snowbound family reacting to a ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

In a collection that happily lacks the written-to-order quality of so many thematic anthologies, ten original stories provide ten distinct perspectives on the quagmire that is "family." The result is a collection with considerable range and depth. Emma Donoghue's title story sets the tone by honestly revealing our most basic instincts toward family—as bickering sisters scream at each other and at no one while rushing their overdosed brother to the hospital. In Walter Dean Myers's "Visit," the painful awkwardness of the conversation between a young man incarcerated for murder and his t...Log In or Sign Up to Read More