Throwing Shadows - Hardcover

Konigsburg, E L

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0689307144 ISBN 13: 9780689307140

Publisher: Atheneum Books, 1979

Synopsis

Five short stories in which young people gain a sense of self.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Here are five extraordinary short stories from the perceptive pen of E.I. Konigsburg. Each captures the moment when someone's life changes -- when a chance meeting between two people casts a shadow on what things have been like, and what they can become.

About the Author:

E.L. Konigsburg is the only author to have won the Newbery Medal and a Newbery Honor in the same year. In 1968, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler won the Newbery Medal and Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth was named a Newbery Honor Book. Almost thirty years later she won the Newbery Medal once again for The View from Saturday. Among her other acclaimed books are Silent to the Bone, The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place, and The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World.

About this edition

• Publisher: Atheneum Books
• Publication date: 1979
• ISBN 10: 0689307144
• ISBN 13: 9780689307140
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 151