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edition:Paperback
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category: Children's Fiction
published: Oct 2000
ISBN:9780888994189
publisher: Groundwood Books Ltd

Some of the Kinder Planets

by Tim Wynne-Jones

tagged: short stories, humorous stories
Description

Meet someone new… Harriet, who sees Mars and tastes pomengranates -- all in one day; Cluny, a girl who wants to publish a magazine for people with weird names; Ky, who lives in a geodesic dome deep in the country; Fletcher, the survivor of an almost fatal illness, who decides to paste the names of exotic places he would like to visit on his chest and stomach; Edward George, who made a discovery and became famous -- famous and forgotten -- on a hot day in 1867.

You'll get to know them all in Some of the Kinder Plants -- nine stories full of humor, surprise, fear and wonder, peopled by characters who are just like you, and yet very, very different.

About the Author

Tim Wynne-Jones

Recommended Age, Grade, and Reading Levels
Age:
9 to 12
Grade:
4 to 7
Reading age:
9 to 12
Awards
  • Long-listed, OLA Silver Birch Award
  • Winner, CLA Book of the Year for Children Award
  • Winner, Vicky Metcalf Short Story Award
  • Winner, Governor General's Literary Awards: Text
Editorial Reviews

Tim Wynne-Jones...has a good feel for young people...an outstanding collection of...contemporary fiction.

— Quill & Quire, STARRED REVIEW

Funny and full of pithy, corkscrew logic and unique, unforgettable characters.

— Horn Book, STARRED REVIEW
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