Winner of an Edgar Award, Mindy McGinnis is a novelist whose most recent book is The Female of the Species. She wrote this story, “Lissss,” in 1983.
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— Mindy McGinnis, Age 7
“In second grade I was living in Ohio (around the corner from where I live now) and spending most of my time in the woods because I thought I was Brian from Hatchet.”