Ten award-winning authors--Norma Fox Mazer, Rita Williams-Garcia, Paul Fleischman, Jane Yolen, Howard Norman, E.L. Konigsburg, Michael J. Rosen, Kyoto Mori, Karen Hesse, and Joseph Bruchac--create a bond of intimacy and excitement as they reach across their own childhoods to those of their readers. The stories, so different in tone, style, and content, have in common the narrative intensity and attention to detail that mark a writer's sensibility at any age.