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The chronicles of Harris Burdick : 14 amazing authors tell the tales / [illustrated by] Chris Van Allsburg ; with an introduction by Lemony Snicket.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt for Children, 2011.Description: v, 195 p. : ill. ; 27 cmISBN:
  • 9780547548104 (trade)
  • 0547548109
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • [Fic] 23
LOC classification:
  • PZ5 .C485 2011
Contents:
Introduction / by Lemony Snicket -- Archie Smith, Boy Wonder / by Tabitha King -- Under the rug / by Jon Scieszka -- A strange day in July / by Sherman Alexie -- Missing in Venice / by Gregory Maguire -- Another place, another time / by Cory Doctorow -- Uninvited guests / by Jules Feiffer -- The harp / by Linda Sue Park -- Mr. Linden's library / by Walter Dean Myers -- The seven chairs / by Lois Lowry -- The third-floor bedroom / by Kate DiCamillo -- Just desert / by M.T. Anderson -- Captain Tory / by Louis Sachar -- Oscar and Alphonse: the Farkas Conjecture / by Chris Van Allsburg-- The house on Maple Street / by Stephen King -- Original introduction to The mysteries of Harris Burdick / by Chris Van Allsburg.
Summary: Presents fourteen short stories from award-winning authors based on the illustrations in Chris Van Allsburg's "The Mysteries of Harris Burdick".
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Books Books Riverfield Country Day School Fiction Collection Fiction Collection FIC All (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available Shelved in FIC All T0085579
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Presents fourteen short stories from award-winning authors based on the illustrations in Chris Van Allsburg's "The Mysteries of Harris Burdick".

Introduction / by Lemony Snicket -- Archie Smith, Boy Wonder / by Tabitha King -- Under the rug / by Jon Scieszka -- A strange day in July / by Sherman Alexie -- Missing in Venice / by Gregory Maguire -- Another place, another time / by Cory Doctorow -- Uninvited guests / by Jules Feiffer -- The harp / by Linda Sue Park -- Mr. Linden's library / by Walter Dean Myers -- The seven chairs / by Lois Lowry -- The third-floor bedroom / by Kate DiCamillo -- Just desert / by M.T. Anderson -- Captain Tory / by Louis Sachar -- Oscar and Alphonse: the Farkas Conjecture / by Chris Van Allsburg-- The house on Maple Street / by Stephen King -- Original introduction to The mysteries of Harris Burdick / by Chris Van Allsburg.

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