My father was a middle school teacher, and I believe he brought this book home for me as he did with so many. I believe this would have been classified YA maybe 5th grade and up?
(Stories are not in order, just as I think of them)
- a girl who went into the ocean and a shark bumped the back of her leg but didn’t bite her. Narration was that sharks bite some people but not others, based on smell, etc.
- a boy in school was always lying to his classmates. One of his lies was to say his parents belonged to the circus. One day he disappeared from school and when they asked, they were told his parents came to take him back with them to the circus.
- A girl was delivering newspapers in a storm and she got swept into a drainpipe where she was holding on for her life.
- Someone was out on a boat on a lake and met a man who turned out to be a ghost (I think).
- A boy was skiing down a mountain, not paying attention, and the mountain was talking to him. Then because he wasn’t paying attention, I think he fell and broke his leg.
- A boy found a pair of boots on a street corner, put them on, and the boots made him run without being able to stop.
- Someone walked into a café (I think) and began talking to someone else (someone had crutches). When the older boy got up to leave, the other person noticed that he was missing a leg.
*There were definitely black and white illustrations.
I have been searching for this book for over 15 years – I surely hope you can help me!