WHAT DO FISH HAVE TO DO WITH ANYTHING? And Other Stories

Avi has a gift for getting inside preteenagers' minds and writing the way they talk. This is a collection of short fiction about the day-to-day issues of this age group. Suicide, school and divorce are covered. All three narrators do a good job reading like a kid, but Johnny Heller goes beyond the mark, especially in the last story. He sounds just like a maddening middle-schooler, whiny, cocky, but still caring about what adults think. A.G.H. © AudioFile, Portland, Maine [Published: AUG/SEP 99]