America Street: A Multicultural Anthology of Stories by Anne Mazer
	List Price:   $9.95 Unit Price:   $7.96 You Save:   $1.99 (20%) ISBN-10:   0892551917 ISBN-13:   9780892551910 Publisher:   Persea Books; WW Norton Category:   Young Adults Pub. Date:   September 1993 Pages:   160 Format:   Trade Paper Ages:   13 to 17
Description/Notes
Fourteen vital and unique stories about young people of diverse ethnic backgrounds told by some of America's best storytellers. Authors include Langston Hughes, Robert Cormier, Gary Soto, Grace Paley, Gish Jen, Duane Big Eagle, Lensey Namioka, Toni Cade Bambara, Francisco Jimenez, Michele Wallace, Mary K. Mazotti, Nicholasa Mohr, and Naomi Shihab Nye. This unique anthology for young readers has fourteen short stories about growing up in a diverse society. Written by top American authors, this book features young people in a wide variety of races living in cities and rural areas, facing realities of life, and trying to make a place for themselves.