Shelf Life/various authors/173 pp.

Subtitled "Ten Original Stories to Benefit ProLiteracy Worldwide", this book is a compilation of stories by various authors, edited by Gary Paulsen. I didn't realize it when I bought the book, but apparently it was geared towards younger readers. The collection includes a story by Gregory Maguire (author of Wicked and Son of a Witch), titled "Tea Party Ends in Bloody Massacre, Film at 11". In "In Your Hat", by Ellen Conford, a high school prankster becomes the butt of someone else's joke. Other contributors to the volume are Margaret Peterson Haddix, Jennifer L. Holm, A. LaFaye, Kathleen Karr, Ellen Wittlinger, Marion Dane Bauer, M.T. Anderson, and Joan Bauer.