Throwing Shadows

Throwing Shadows
ISBN-10
0689821204
ISBN-13
9780689821202
Category
Identity
Pages
164
Language
English
Published
1998
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Author
E. L. Konigsburg

Description

ALA Notable Book "Horn Book" Fanfare Winner of the International Children's Literature Association's 1999 Phoenix Award * A retired college president is determined to best a young beachcomber * A store manager accuses a boy of shoplifting * A tour guide strikes a bargain with an enterprising orphan * A boy recovering from a broken arm befriends an elderly woman in an old folks' home * A widow and her son seize an opportunity presented by a pair of antiques dealers In each of these extraordinary short stories from the perceptive pen of E. L. Konigsburg, a chance meeting between two people casts a shadow on what things have been and what they can become, and changes a life forever.

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