| Love & Sex Contributor(s): Cart, Michael (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0689856687 ISBN-13: 9780689856686 Publisher: Simon Pulse OUR PRICE: $13.25 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2003 Annotation: This groundbreaking volume features ten original short stories by today's finest young adult authors--including Chris Lynch, Joan Bauer, and Garth Nix--that take a hard, clear look at various aspects of love and sexuality. These stories depict young people as they face the challenges of the new world that is opening up to them. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes - Dating & Relationships - Juvenile Fiction | Love & Romance - Juvenile Fiction | Short Stories |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 000052269 |
| Lexile Measure: 840 |
| Physical Information: 0.59" H x 5.5" W x 8.49" (0.68 lbs) 240 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Teen - Topical - Adolescence/Coming of Age |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 57928 Reading Level: 5.5 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 8.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Lust, Desire, Fantasy, Obsession, Love In one outstanding volume, ten of today's finest authors of adult and young-adult literature lend teir talent and their vioces to take a hard, clear look at love and sexuality. From balancing abstinence and desire, to learning the difference between love and lust, to fulfilling a childhood obsession, each of these stories depicts characters exploring a world of new feelings and sensations that is opening up before them. At times magical, funny, sad, and angry -- but always heartbraakingly honest -- these stories reveal the pressures and complications -- and sometimes joy -- of love and sex. Laurie Halse Anderson Snake Joan Bauer Extra Virgin Emma Donoghue The Welcome Louise Hawes Fine and Dandy Angela Johnson Watcher Michael Lowenthal The Acuteness of Desire Chris Lynch The Cure of Curtis GarhtNix Lightning Bringer Sonya Sones Secret Shelf Shelley Steohr Troll Bumps |