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Twice Told: Original Stories Inspired by Original Artwork

10 best books like Twice Told: Original Stories Inspired by Original Artwork (Scott W. Hunt): Toby Wheeler: Eighth-Grade Benchwarmer, Sixteen: Stories about That Sweet and Bitter Birthday, Pick-Up Game: A Full Day of Full Court, Shelf Life: Stories by the Book, On the Fringe, When I Crossed No-Bob, A True and Faithful Narrative, Minerva Clark Gets a Clue, The Innocent's Story, Ain't Nothing but a Man: My Quest to Find the Real John Henry

Toby Wheeler: Eighth-Grade Benchwarmer
AuthorThatcher Heldring
ISBN0385733909
TOBY WHEELER LOVES basketball and playing pickup games at the local rec center. No coaches, no practices, just nonstop action with his best friend, JJ, at his side. But lately JJ's been acting like he's too busy for Toby, and Toby knows it will only get worse once basketball season begins at their junior...
Sixteen: Stories about That Sweet and Bitter Birthday
AuthorMegan McCafferty
An incredible anthology of 16 short-stories by award winning & critically acclaimed young-adult authors, inspired by all the angst, melodrama, and wonderment of being sixteen. These hilarious, poignant, and touching tales capture all the emotions and milestones of this age ranging from first...
Pick-Up Game: A Full Day of Full Court
AuthorMarc Aronson
ISBN0763645621
Pass! Shoot! Swish! An all-star team of YA authors scores spectacularly with an action-packed anthology about street basketball.

It’s one steamy July day at the West 4th Street Court in NYC, otherwise known as The Cage. Hotshot ESPN is wooing the scouts, Boo is struggling to guard the weird...
Shelf Life: Stories by the Book
AuthorGary Paulsen
ISBN0689841809
Newbery Honor author Gary Paulsen has long been an ardent supporter of books, reading, and literacy programs. To further the cause of ProLiteracy Worldwide, he asked prominent authors to write an original story; the only restriction was that each story was to include mention of a book. The result is...
On the Fringe
AuthorDonald R. Gallo
ISBN0803726562
In every school at every grade, there's a pecking order among students -- an in crowd and those outside it, who are often ridiculed mercilessly for the "crime" of being different. This powerful anthology explores the teen outsider experience in electrifying, never-before-published stories by eleven...
When I Crossed No-Bob
AuthorMargaret McMullan
ISBN0618717153
Life as an O’Donnell is all twelve-year-old Addy knows, and life as an O’Donnell means trouble.
Tucked away in a gray patch of woods called No-Bob, the O’Donnell clan has nothing but a bad reputation. So when Addy’s mama abandons her on the afternoon of Mr. Frank Russell’s wedding celebration,...
A True and Faithful Narrative
AuthorKatherine Sturtevant
ISBN0374378096
In Restoration London, sixteen-year-old Meg Moore is something of an anomaly. Unlike other girls her age, Meg pores over books. She spends long hours conversing with the famous authors and poets who visit her father's bookstore, and even writes her own stories, laboring over every word until her hand...
Minerva Clark Gets a Clue
AuthorKaren Karbo
ISBN1582347476
Minerva Clark is a typical thirteen-year-old girl: she hates her hair, she hates her legs (which somehow manage to look both too fat and too skinny at the same time), and don’t get her started on her gigantor bootie. On top of all this puberty, she’s being raised by three older brothers,...
The Innocent's Story
AuthorNicky Singer
ISBN0192754491
The Innocent's Story is an excellent novel by Nicky Singer. Singer creatively portrayed the minds and hearts of two terrorist, one who truly wanted to kill and one who didn't, and who was haunted by his daughter's death. Singer also described the view of a mother's and father's unconditional love for...
Ain't Nothing but a Man: My Quest to Find the Real John Henry
AuthorScott Reynolds Nelson
Who was the real John Henry? The story of this legendary African-American figure has come down to us in so many songs, stories, and plays, that the facts are often lost. Historian Scott Nelson brings John Henry alive for young readers in his personal quest for the true story of the man behind the myth. Nelson...
The Entertainer and the Dybbuk
AuthorSid Fleischman
ISBN0061344451
Avrom Amos likes to crack jokes. He loves the spotlight. And if he wants something, he knows how to get it. He's just like any other boy, except for one thing: He's a ghost—a dybbuk. During World War Two he'd been murdered by the Nazis, right after he saved the life of a young ventriloquist named Freddie.

Freddie...
The Curse of the Romanovs
AuthorStaton Rabin
ISBN1416902082
Alexei Romanov, heir to the Russian throne, is in deadly danger.

It¹s 1916, the struggling Russian people are tired of war and are blaming their Romanov rulers for it, and some are secretly plotting to murder the young heir and his family. But nobody outside the palace knows that Alexei suffers...
Cherry Heaven
AuthorLucy Adlington
The gripping sequel to hugely successful THE DIARY OF PELLY D. It?s ten years since the terrible war in the cities that took Kat and Tanka?s parents. A new life in the New Frontier beckons them, far from bullet holes and bomb craters. New Frontier people are building a fresh, liberal society, without the...
Beauty Shop for Rent: . . . fully equipped, inquire within
AuthorLaura Bowers
ISBN0152057641
Abbey Garner has a plan: to earn a million dollars by the time she's thirty-five. Financial independence will allow her to break the cycle of unhappiness endured by the women in her family. Determined to fulfill her dream, Abbey works at Granny Po's struggling beauty shop, where the feisty Gray Widows...
Sideshow: Ten Original Tales of Freaks, Illusionists and Other Matters Odd and Magical
AuthorDeborah Noyes
ISBN0763637521
Freaks, magicians, psychics, and the passing strange take center stage in ten original tales by top YA authors and graphic novelists.

Molly is a bearded girl who joins the circus, only to fi nd that her former tormentor faces a far hairier plight. Tia claims that her lamented mom is a three-thousand-year-old...
Imagine a Place
AuthorSarah L. Thomson
ISBN1416968024
If you can imagine a place,
you can go there.

Imagine a place that makes you feel as free as a bird. Imagine a place where getting there is worth whatever it takes. Imagine a place that makes you feel like it's always been your destination. Imagine a place made out of pure imagination.

Imagine...
Friends: Stories About New Friends, Old Friends, And Unexpectedly True Friends
AuthorAnn M. Martin
ISBN0439729912
Stories of friendship from some of the most acclaimed and dynamic writers in children's books today, edited by Ann M. Martin and David Levithan, with all proceeds going to The Lisa Libraries.

The friend can be the girl next door . . . or a faithful dog . . . or a teacher . . . or just plain invisible....
One Hot Second: Stories About Desire
AuthorCathy Young
ISBN0440237831
Sex. It's on the minds of every teenager, whether they're having it, not having it, talking about it, or just thinking about it. In this powerful collection, 11 acclaimed writers for young people capture the various expressions of desire- from first crushes to first times, and all of the charged emotions...
What You Wish For: A Book for Darfur
AuthorAlexander McCall Smith
ISBN0399254544
A stellar collection from Newbery medalists and bestselling authors written to benefit Darfuri refugees

With contributions from some of the best talent writing for children today, What You Wish For is a compelling collection of affecting, inspiring, creepy, and oft-times funny short...
Double On-Call and Other Stories
AuthorJohn Green
This was available as a perk for people who donated to the Harry Potter Alliance's Equality FTW fundraiser.

The first section of John Green's unfinished, abandoned novel THE SEQUEL, which is a sequel to a novel that doesn't exist called THE ODD AT SEA. About the story, John says "THE SEQUEL contains...
Up All Night
AuthorLaura Geringer Bass
ISBN0061370762
A brush with the supernatural? A rock concert? A reunion? A poolside revelation? The need to know what's up? The confessions of a friend? The dream of escape? A sick pet? An English assignment? The rear-window view of a murder next door? The search for the mother you never met? What keeps you up all night?

This...
Just Between Us
AuthorMaya Linden
Empathetic, supportive and respectful...
Or competitive, manipulative and downright bitchy?
Or somewhere in between?

In Just Between Us , a host of Australia's best-loved female writers bare all on this age-old quandary:
Are female friendships all-natural and nurturing?...
Who Done It?
AuthorJon Scieszka
ISBN1616951524
A star-studded anthology with a devilish hook, whose proceeds benefit 826nyc: the fabulous literacy non-profit founded by Dave Eggers.
 
Can you imagine the most cantankerous book editor alive? Part Voldemort, part Cruella de Vil (if she were a dude), and worse in appearance and odor than...
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