Laughter,tears,and memories shared-that's love!
The giddy excitement of a first kiss,the devastation of rejection...Experience all the fun and heartache of romance in this richly varied collection in which dreams come true,hearts are broken,and even the unpredictable can become hilarious.
THE MISSING VITAL ORGAN
Betsy Byars (from Bingo Brown and the Language of Love)
THE GREEN BEHIND THE GLASS
Addle Geras
CINDERELLA GIRL
Vivien Alcock
THE NIGHTINGALE AND THE ROSE
Oscar Wilde
LOVE LETTERS
Kate Walker
THE GIRL WHO LOVED THE SUN
Diana Wynne Jones
THE WORST KIDS IN THE WORLD (an extract)
Barbara Robinson
THE FAT GIRL'S VALENTINE
Ann Pilling (from The Big Pink)
A RAILWAY STORY
Guy de Maupassant
ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE
James Reeves (A Greek myth)
BILLIE
Ann Pilling
LUCKY LIPS
Paul Jennings
A STAR FOR THE LATECOMER (an extract)
Paul Zindel and Bonnie Zindel
THE PLATE: A QUESTION OF VALUES
Geraldine McCaughrean (from A Pack of Lies)
A PROPOSALE
Daisy Ashford (from The Young Visiters)
I WAS ADORED ONCE, TOO
Jan Mark
FOR BEING GOOD
Cynthia Rylant
THE WATER WOMAN AND HER LOVER
Ralph Prince (A Guyanese legend)
THE FAVORITE
Jacqueline Wilson
TELLING STORIES
Maeve Binchy
Acknowledgments
