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Title:

Eight Plus One
 

Authors:

Genres:

Young Adult
Short Stories
Contemporary

Editions:

# Date Publisher Binding Cover
1 1980-00-00 Delacorte Press  

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Blurb: 
This is a Young Adult Novel. Meet seventeen-year-old Mike, who visits his grandmother"s bedside and learns a family secret. A divorced father who discovers only love, not bribes, can keep his daughter "his" on Thursdays. And Jerry, a young boy desperately looking for the missing Grover Cleveland card to complete his set of president cards. Here are nine stories by Robert Cormier, one of the most gifted writers of young adult fiction today; stories that are warm, touching, and intensely personal--to be savored by readers of all ages. 8 Plus 1, an anthology of short stories that have appeared in such publications as the Saturday Evening Post, The Sign, and Redbook, was published in 1980. In later years, many of the stories in the collection, notably