Award-winning author Avi creates seven portraits of life in the middle-school years. Readers will meet William of "What Do Fish Have to Do with Anything?, " who wonders why he shouldn't ask questions that have no answers. A minister's son, the baddest of the bad, is dared to be good in "The Goodness of Matt Kaiser." Always with a surprise built in, an angle unseen, these are stories that step just beyond the edge of the every day.
