02270cam a2200385 a 4500 14477355 20081230153008.0 060802s2007 nyu c 000 1 eng 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg acquire 2 shelf copies policy default lb18 2006-08-02 lb18 2006-08-02 lb18 2006-08-02 to CIP ps10 2007-05-02 1 copy rec'd., to CIP ver. ld11 2007-09-13 Z-CipVer ld11 2007-09-13 to BCCD 2006022548 0892553162 (original trade pbk. : alk. paper) 9780892553167 (original trade pbk. : alk. paper) (OCoLC)ocm70830912 (OCoLC)70830912 DLC DLC YDX BAKER BTCTA YDXCP DLC lcac PZ7 .O942 2007 [Fic] 22 Outside rules : short stories about nonconformist youth / edited, with an introduction by Claire Robson. 1st ed. New York : Persea Books, c2007. xiii, 178 p. ; 21 cm. "A Karen and Michael Braziller Book." An anthology of fourteen short stories about youth who do not quite fit in because they are too brainy, unathletic, poor, the "wrong" religion, emotionally fragile, from non-traditional families, not model-thin, or simply bent on following a unique path. A minstrel visits / Sandell Morse -- Mr.Softee / Wally Lamb -- My Tocaya / Sandra Cisneros -- Surrounded by sleep / Akhil Sharma -- One extra parking space / Jacqueline Sheehan -- Laughing in the dark / Rand Richards Cooper -- Nobody listens when I talk / Annette Sanford -- Saint Chola / K. Kvashay-Boyle -- The frontiers of knowledge / Claire Robson -- Gypsy girl rules / Caitlin Lonning -- April / Katharine Noel -- The kind of light that shines on Texas / Reginald McKnight -- Playing the garden / Chris Fisher -- The white room / Rebecca Rule. Short stories, American. Short stories, English. Conformity Fiction. Social isolation Fiction. Interpersonal relations Fiction. Short stories. Robson, Claire, 1949- Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0618/2006022548.html