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True Heroes

True Heroes

by Shannon Hale, Ally Condie, Jennifer A. Nielsen

HeroesShort storiesCancerFictionJuvenile fiction
5.0
Open Library
Open Library

About this book

This one-of-a-kind treasury brings together the talents of nearly two dozen bestselling middle-grade authors including Shannon Hale, Brandon Mull, Ally Condie and Jennifer A. Nielsen-who have created original short stories, modern-day fairy tales, based on the lives and dreams of children they have met who all have two things in common: They have very big hopes and dreams and they are all cancer patients. Each short story is prefaced by a brief bio of the child and is accompanied by photographs of the child, fully costumed and digitally inserted into a background-A baker, a dancer, a superhero, a dragon fighter, a sports star, a princess and more- that makes them the hero of their own modern day fairy tale story written by one of their favorite authors.

Themes & subjects

HeroesShort storiesCancerFictionJuvenile fictionHeroes and heroines

About the authors

Shannon Hale
Shannon Hale

26 January 1974

Ally Condie
Ally Condie

1978

American author of young adult and middle grade fiction.

Authors

Shannon Hale, Ally Condie, Jennifer A. Nielsen

Pages

199

Read time

≈ 5h

Editions

2

Language

English

Publisher

Shadow Mountain Publishing

ISBN

9781629733760

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