What Do Fish Have to Do With Anything?

by Avi

  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or, if real, are used fictitiously.

  Text copyright © 1997 by Avi

  Illustrations copyright © 1997 by Tracy Mitchell

  All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, transmitted, or stored in an information retrieval system in any form or by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, taping, and recording, without prior written permission from the publisher.

  First electronic edition 2016

  The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows:

  Avi, date.

  What do fish have to do with anything? : short stories / by Avi. — 1st ed. Contents: What do fish have to do with anything? — The goodness of Matt Kaizer — Talk to me — Teacher tamer — Pets — What’s inside — Fortune cookie.

  ISBN 978-0-7636-0329-8 (hardcover)

  1. Children’s stories, American. [1. Short stories.] I. Title.

  PZ7. A953Wf 1997

  [Fic] — dc21 97-1354

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