Altogether, One At a Time - Softcover

Konigsburg, E.L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0689712901 ISBN 13: 9780689712906

Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 1998

Synopsis

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?

In E. L. Konigsburg's funny and perceptive short stories, four young people cope with difficult situations and, in doing so, learn something that changes their lives.

About this title

From the Publisher

E.L. Konigsburg's writing is funny, perceptive, and, most of all, real. In these four short stories, she deftly captures four people who must cope with difficult situations -- and in doing so, learn something that changes their lives.

About the Author

E. L. Konigsburg is the only author to have won the Newbery Medal and be runner-up 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 Newbery Honor Book. Almost thirty years later she won the Newbery Medal once again for The View From Saturday. She has also written and illustrated three picture books: Samuel Todd's Book of Great Colors, Samuel Todd's Book of Great Inventions, and Amy Elizabeth Explores Bloomingdale's. In 2000 she wrote Silent to the Bone, which was named a New York Times Notable Book and an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, among many other honors.

After completing her degree at Carnegie Mellon University, Ms. Konigsburg did graduate work in organic chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh. For several years she taught science at a private girls' school. When the third of her three children started kindergarten, she began to write. She now lives on the beach in North Florida.

Gary E. Parker is the best-selling author of ten novels and three novellas, including Secret Tides and Fateful Journeys. A Christy Award finalist, Parker has become CBA's source for sweeping sagas of faith and family. A PhD graduate of Baylor University, he serves as the senior pastor of the First Baptist Church of Decatur, Georgia, and lives there with his wife, Melody, and daughters, Andrea and Ashley.

Edition details

• Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0689712901
• ISBN 13: 9780689712906
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 88
• Illustrator: Haley Gail E., Mayer Mercer, Parker Gary E., Schindelman Laurel