Summary/Overview: This book is an anthology of short stories by some pretty popular young adult authors such as Virginia E. Wolff, Walter Dean Myers, and Avi. Each short story in the anthology deals with the theme of loss in a different way. The stories are wide ranging but loss ties them all together. There is a story about a vampire who loses his pet cat and about a child whose father has AIDS. These stories seem completely different but both the vampire and child are heart broken by their losses in the end. The universal theme of loss ties these stories together just as it ties us humans together. Even if you do not like some of the stories, there is at the very least one story within this wide assortment of texts that you may like. Personal thoughts and opinions: This is a great collection of short stories and I strongly recommend it to just about anyone. Loss is such a universal theme so I think that anyone could find something to relate to within these stories.
Would I teach this book: I would not hesitate to use this anthology in a classroom. I know students would enjoy the short story aspect. Also the stories themselves are a great teaching resource. So many lessons and literary elements can be taught using this text as an example.
Quote: "It's a feeling like flying. I don't mean airplanes, I've never even been on one. I mean what flying would be like if you could just lift your arms and go. Soar. Sometimes, though, it's like a color, like swimming in a color." The Tin Butterfly - by Norma Fox Mazer
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