Avi's treasured Newbery Honor Book now in expanded After Words edition!Thirteen-year-old Charlotte Doyle is excited to return home from her school in England to her family in Rhode Island in the summer of 1832.

Relates the adventures of a fisherman who finds a magic guitar floating in the Caribbean Sea. Includes the music for the song "Jolly Mon Sing."

Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself.

Part of the regionalist movement that included Grant Wood, Paul Engle, Hamlin Garland, and Jay G. Sigmund, James Hearst helped create what Iowa novelist Ruth Suckow called a poetry of place.

THE STORY: The time is the mid '70s, the place a city in upstate New York.

... away , like , forever . “ Thanks , though , ” I tell him . " Okay . " He ... Blow Me " ) , or as my mother comes walking through that door ( Missy Elliott ? Don ... lyrics . There's other stuff loaded up , too . A Fine Frenzy . Snow.

This new edition of Mules and Men features a new cover and a P.S. section which includes insights, interviews, and more.