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Summer girls, love boys, and other short stories
Some loves last forever--others, only a summerThe summer Mary turns fifteen, she meets an unsuitable boy with an even more unsuitable motorcycle. Who cares if he's from the wrong side of the tracks? He's fun, and that's a risk Mary decides is worth taking.Before she got married and had three children, Zelda quit college to work in a factory because she thought it would impress her seriously political boyfriend. But it was in the factory that she found a sisterhood and a source of inspiration that would last a lifetime--considerably longer than the boyfriend.Lillian has lived all her life on Greene Street. She grew up there, got married there, raised two girls who went off to live their lives, and now--at her age!--she has the chance to leave it all behind and find love in sunny Florida. But can she, if it means living without Greene Street?There are many kinds of love, and you'll find most of them in this collection of short stories by the extraordinary Norma Fox Mazer.
- GenresYoung AdultShort Stories
243 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1982
About the author
Norma Fox Mazer
59 books106 followersNorma Fox Mazer was an American author and teacher, best known for her books for children and young adults.
She was born in New York City but grew up in Glens Falls, New York, with parents Michael and Jean Garlan Fox. Mazer graduated from Glens Falls High School, then went to Antioch College, where she met Harry Mazer, whom she married in 1950; they have four children, one of whom, Anne Mazer, is also a writer. She also studied at Syracuse University.
New York Times Book Review contributor Ruth I. Gordon wrote that Mazer "has the skill to reveal the human qualities in both ordinary and extraordinary situations as young people mature....it would be a shame to limit their reading to young people, since they can show an adult reader much about the sometimes painful rite of adolescent passage into adulthood."
Among the honors Mazer earned for her writing were a National Book Award nomination in 1973, an American Library Association Notable Book citation in 1976, inclusion on the New York Times Outstanding Books of the Year list in 1976, the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1978, an Edgar Award in 1982, German Children's Literature prizes in 1982 and 1989, and a Newbery Medal in 1988.
Mazer taught in the Master of Fine Arts in Writing for Children & Young Adults Program at Vermont College.
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She was born in New York City but grew up in Glens Falls, New York, with parents Michael and Jean Garlan Fox. Mazer graduated from Glens Falls High School, then went to Antioch College, where she met Harry Mazer, whom she married in 1950; they have four children, one of whom, Anne Mazer, is also a writer. She also studied at Syracuse University.
New York Times Book Review contributor Ruth I. Gordon wrote that Mazer "has the skill to reveal the human qualities in both ordinary and extraordinary situations as young people mature....it would be a shame to limit their reading to young people, since they can show an adult reader much about the sometimes painful rite of adolescent passage into adulthood."
Among the honors Mazer earned for her writing were a National Book Award nomination in 1973, an American Library Association Notable Book citation in 1976, inclusion on the New York Times Outstanding Books of the Year list in 1976, the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1978, an Edgar Award in 1982, German Children's Literature prizes in 1982 and 1989, and a Newbery Medal in 1988.
Mazer taught in the Master of Fine Arts in Writing for Children & Young Adults Program at Vermont College.
For more information, please see http://www.answers.com/topic/norma-fo...
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October 18, 2018
I picked this book up at the library sale last week. I had read a couple of the author's other books as a kid, but didn't remember this one.
It's short stories, published in the early 80s. They do touch on topics that are still relevant today. Things like teen love and stuff, but also, women in the workplace, losing loved ones, and growing old.
It's short stories, published in the early 80s. They do touch on topics that are still relevant today. Things like teen love and stuff, but also, women in the workplace, losing loved ones, and growing old.
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August 9, 2011Thoughtful short stories mostly about teens on (if I recall correctly) Greene St.
January 28, 2013
A great collection of short stories on teen angst, teen love, and teen life.
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