| There Is No Long Distance Now: Very Short Stories Contributor(s): Nye, Naomi Shihab (Author) |
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ISBN: 0062019651 ISBN-13: 9780062019653 Publisher: Greenwillow Books OUR PRICE: $16.19 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes - Values & Virtues - Young Adult Fiction | Short Stories - Young Adult Fiction | Coming Of Age |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2010025559 |
| Lexile Measure: 770 |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.5" W x 8.4" (0.65 lbs) 208 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In these forty life-altering, life-affirming, and extremely short short stories, the award-winning poet Naomi Shihab Nye proposes that no matter how great the divide between friends, siblings, life and death, classmates, enemies, happiness and misery, war and peace, breakfast and lunch, parent and child, country and city, there is, in fact, no long distance. Not anymore. |
Contributor Bio(s): Nye, Naomi Shihab: - Naomi Shihab Nye is a poet and anthologist and the acclaimed author of Habibi: A Novel and Sitti's Secrets, a picture book, which was based on her own experiences visiting her beloved Sitti in Palestine. Her book 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East was a finalist for the National Book Award. She has taught writing and worked in schools all over the world, including in Muscat, Oman. She lives in San Antonio, Texas. |