In this issue we talk with Sandy Asher and David L. Harrison about their book DUDE! Stories
and Stuff for Boys. DUDE! is a collection of stories, plays, poems, and personal narratives …

The settings range from a US Civil War battlefield, where one young man learns that war is
no game, to a hotel in Baltimore, where a young man learns that dreams can come true in …

Each of the selections is about a young man at the beginning of adolescence; most are
between 11 and 13 years of age. The problems they face range from those as innocuous as …