Maya Angelou

Karen Cushman

James Berry

Christina Hamlett

Mcgraw-Hill-Glencoe Staff

For use in teaching literature to high school students.

Catherine, Called Birdy

It's Not Me, It's You

After a lifetime of bachelorhood, retired handyman George Mertons is finally tying the knot. His roommate of the past 40 years, however, is none too pleased with the impending nuptials; the bride-to-be is Bernard's ex-wife, Margaret, a successful romance novelist with a home on Beacon Hill. Though the flames of matrimonial ex-passion have long since died for Bernard, he is nonetheless intent on fanning whatever controversy he can into a minor inferno in order to validate his worth to George as the latter's best friend. The friction only escalates when George and Bernard's rent-controlled apartment goes condo, now leaving Bernard with nowhere to hang his hat.

The Best Man

The last thing she needed was to be among the deceased on her 22nd wedding anniversary. Gwen Truax had the day perfectly scheduled. She was a key asset in her company's upcoming merger. And above all, she was going to ask for a divorce from her simpleton husband. Instead, she finds herself at the desk of the Archangel Michael, demanding for explanations or at least a reserved parking space on a cloud. Much to her dismay, Michael informs her she is being returned to Earth with an assignment to prove herself worthy of admittance to the Hereafter. Specifically, she is to find a new wife for her widower husband, Dan. She must start from ground zero and is given a disturbing makeover into an unattractive typist named Betty Crocker, who now lives above a noisy Chinese restaurant. The once beautiful butcold-hearted executive is reduced to working as a subordinate in the company in which she was once a major player. During this journey Gwen meets an array of odd characters she might have dismissed in her former life as the planet's lowest common denominators.To her surprise she even falls in love again with the man she thought she hated, and starts to believe that this was the purpose of her test. She commands Michael to allow her to return to Dan, but it is not to be. Her test is of greater strength and love, for only in coming to care deeply for others can she truly make a choice that will have their best interests at heart.

Heaven Only Knows

Screen Teen Writers is a Meriwether Publishing publication.

Christina Hamlett

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