Necessary noise : stories about our families as they really are / edited by Michael Cart ; illustrations by Charlotte Noruzi.

Edition: 1st ed.

Publisher: New York : HarperTempest, c2003.

ISBN: 0060274999
0060275006 (lib. bdg.)

Description: xiii, 239 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Subject: Family Juvenile fiction.
Young adult fiction, American.
Family Fiction.
Short stories.

Notes: "Joanna Cotler Books."

Contents: Hardware / Joan Bauer -- Siskiyou Sloan and the eye of the giraffe / Norma Howe -- Necessary noise / Emma Donoghue -- The throwaway, a suite / Nikki Grimes -- Visit / Walter Dean Myers -- A family illness, a Mom-Son conversation / Joyce Carol Thomas -- A woman's touch / Rita Williams-Garcia -- Sailing away / Michael Cart -- Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde / Sonya Sones -- Snowbound / Lois Lowry.