Title:
A Newbery Halloween : a dozen scary stories by Newbery award-winning authors
JLCTITLE245:
selected by Martin H. Greenberg and Charles G. Waugh ; introduction by Lloyd Alexander.
Publication Information:
New York : Delacorte Press, 1993.
Physical Description:
xi, 189 pages ; 26 cm
ISBN:
9780385310284
Abstract:
A collection of short stories with a Halloween theme, by such Newbery Award-winning authors as E.L. Konigsburg, Beverly Cleary, Virginia Hamilton, and Paul Fleischman.
Contents:
The baddest witch in the world / Beverly Cleary -- Witch girl / Elizabeth Coatsworth -- A halloween to remember / E.L. Konigsburg -- The ghost in the attic / Eleanor Estes -- Poor little Saturday / Madeleine L'Engle -- Ah Tcha the sleeper / Arthur Bowie Chrisman -- The witche's eye / Phyllis Reynolds Naylor -- The magic ball / Charles J. Finger -- The man of influence / Paul Fleishman -- Camp fat / E.L. Konigsburg -- The horse of the war god / Elizabeth Coatsworth -- The year halloween happened one day early / Virginia Hamilton.