When mystical creatures attack! /
In When Mystical Creatures Attack!, Ms. Freedman's high school English class writes essays in which mystical creatures resolve the greatest sociopolitical problems of our time. Students include Janice Gibbs, "a feral child with excessive eyeliner and an anti-authoritarian complex that woul...
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Iowa City [Iowa] :
University Of Iowa Press,
[2014]
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| Series: | John Simmons short fiction award.
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