There Is No Long Distance Now - Very Short Stories

Zusatztext "Nye's work opens readers' eyes to new worlds and experiences and does it with thoughtful simplicity." Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Naomi Shihab Nye, Nye Naomi Shihab
• Publisher: Harper Collins Usa
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 13
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.10.2011
• EAN: 9780062019653
• ISBN: 978-0-06-201965-3
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books; Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; YOUNG ADULT FICTION: Social Themes / Friendship *, YOUNG ADULT FICTION: Social Themes / Assimilation *, YOUNG ADULT FICTION: Social Themes / Depression *, YOUNG ADULT FICTION: Social Themes / New Experience *, YOUNG ADULT FICTION: Coming of Age *, YOUNG ADULT FICTION: Social Themes / Values & Virtues *, YOUNG ADULT FICTION: Diversity & Multicultural *, YOUNG ADULT FICTION: Literary *, YOUNG ADULT FICTION: Poetry *