Gone from Home

by Angela Johnson

Book Overview

From two-time Coretta Scott King Award winner Angela Johnson, here are 12 heartrending and uplifting stories exploring the notions of home and hope. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0789424991
• ISBN13: 9780789424990
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 7.9"
• Age Range: 11 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 6 to 12

Customer Reviews

Take time to savor the Short Takes

This book should be read like you eat a box of very expensive chocolates--very slowly, enjoying and savoring every morsel. Each of these stories packs a whollop of emotion and meaning. If you rush through them, you'll miss it. Let it sink in. Only a very skillful writer like Angela Johnson can say so much in so little space. It's been weeks since I read them, and I've read many books since then, but these stories haunt me, and I am glad. This book is intended for young adult readers, but many adults would do well to take the time to read this slim collection.

A Good Book!

I really enjoyed this book. It was funny and also a quickread. Although nothing absolutely phenomenal about it, it was verygood. It is an interesting collection of stories about twelve different people. The stories were not very varied and seemed somewhat similar. Howevever, they were still funny and imaginative. I really enjoyed this book and would reccomend it for a quick read.