Altogether, One at a Time

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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 witty and perceptive short stories, four young people cope with difficult situations and, in doing so, learn something that changes their lives.

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"A marvelous collection, full of wry humor." -- School Library Journal, starred review
"With E. L. Konigsburg doing the writing, you know the stories will be good." -- Publishers Weekly

Author Bio

E.L. Konigsburg is the only author to have won the Newbery Medal and a Newbery Honor in the same year. In 1968,From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweilerwon the Newbery Medal andJennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabethwas named a Newbery Honor Book. Almost thirty years later she won the Newbery Medal once again forThe View from Saturday. Among her other acclaimed books areSilent to the Bone,The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place, andThe Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World.

Mercer Mayer is anAmerican childrens author and illustrator. He has published over 300 books, using a wide range of illustrative styles.

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.

Gail E. Haleyis a prolific author and illustrator. Her time living in the Caribbean inspired her book A Story, a Story, and she traced the folklore she heard there to their African origins, which she studied extensively before capturing with woodcuts that she cut and printed herself. She lives and works in New York with her family, surrounded by a large collection of early childrens books, toys, games, and dolls going back to the seventeenth century.