Best shorts : favorite short stories for sharing / selected by Avi with Carolyn Shute ; [with an afterword by Katherine Paterson ; illustrations by Chris Raschka]. - Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2006. - ix, 342 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Rogue wave / by Theodore Taylor -- The caller / by Robert D. San Souci -- Scout's honor / by Avi -- The dog of Pompeii / by Louis Untermeyer -- LAFFF / by Lensey Namioka -- Rip Van Winkle / by Washington Irving -- Nuts / by Natalie Babbitt -- Flight of the swan / by Marian Flandrick Bray -- Ho-ichi the Earless / by Rafe Martin -- The lady who put salt in her coffee / by Lucretia P. Hale -- The town cats / by Lloyd Alexander -- Zlateh the goat / by Isaac Bashevis Singer -- To starch a spook / by Andrew Benedict -- The night of the pomegranate / by Tim Wynne-Jones -- The librarian and the robbers / by Margaret Mahy -- The woman in the snow / by Patricia McKissack -- The binnacle boy / by Paul Fleischman -- The baby in the night deposit box / by Megan Whalen Turner -- The circuit / by Francisco Jiménez -- The Widow Carey's chickens / by Gerald Hausman -- The special powers of Blossom Culp / by Richard Peck -- A white heron / by Sarah Orne Jewett -- Jimmy takes vanishing lessons / by Walter R. Brooks -- The lady or the tiger? / by Frank Stockton.

ISBN: 9780618476039 (hc) ;

LCCN: 2006011535

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Short stories.