Livingston Lord Library
Curriculum Materials Center

Selected Short Story Collections for Children & Teens
Livingston Lord Library
Minnesota State University Moorhead

Alexander, Lloyd.  The Foundling, and Other Tales of Prydain.  Dell, 1982.  Grades 6-8.  Curric. A376fo2

Allen, Paula Gunn, ed.Song of the Turtle: American Indian Literature, 1974-1994.Ballantine, 1996.Grades 9-12.PS 508 .I5 S62 1996

---.Spider Woman’s Granddaughters: Traditional Tales and Contemporary Writing by Native American Women.Beacon, 1989.Grades 9-12.PS 508 .I5 S64 1989 

Appelt, Kathi.  Kissing Tennessee and Other Stories from the Stardust Dance.  Harcourt, 2000.  Grades 7-9.  Available at Concordia Library

Armstrong, Jennifer, ed.  Shattered: Stories of Children and War.  Knopf, 2002.  Grades 6-12.  Curric. S533

Asher, Sandy, ed.  With All My Heart, With All My Mind.  Simon, 1999.  Grades 5-9.  Available at Concordia Library

Austin, Doris Jean and Martin Simmons.Streetlights: Illuminating Tales of the Urban Black Experience. Penguin,1996.Grades 9-12.PS 648 .C5 S77 1996

Avi.What Do Fish Have To Do With Anything? And Other Stories.Candlewick, 1997.Grade 4 and up.Curric. A957wha

Bauer, Marion Dane, ed.Am I Blue? Coming Out from the Silence.HarperCollins, 1994.Grades 9-12.Curric. A479  

Bezmozgis, David.  Natasha and Other Stories.  Farrar, 2004.  Grades 9-12.  PR 9199.4 .B495 N38 2004

Block, Francesca.  The Rose and the Beast: Fairy Tales Retold.  HarperCollins, 2000.  Grades 9-12.  Curric. B6513r

Blume, Judy, ed.Places I Never Meant To Be: Original Stories by Censored Writers.Atheneum, 1999.Grades 9-12.Available at Concordia Library

Brooks, Martha.Paradise Café and Other Stories.Little, Brown, 1990.Grades 9-12.Curric. B8734p 

Byars, Betsy.  My Dog, My Hero.  Holt, 2000.  Grades 3-6.  Available at Concordia Library 

Carlson, Lori M., ed.American Eyes; New Asian-American Short Stories for Young Adults.Holt, 1994.Grades 7 and up.Curric. A5121

Carlson, Lori M. and Cynthia Ventura, eds.Where Angels Glide at Dawn; New Stories from Latin America.Lippincott, 1990.Grades 5 and up.Curric. W5675

Cart, Michael, compiler/editor.  Necessary Noise: Stories about Our Families as They Really Are.  HarperTempest, 2003.  Grades 7 and up.  Curric. C322n

---.Tomorrowland:Ten Stories about the Future.Scholastic, 1999.Grades 9-12.Curric. T661

Cisneros, Sandra.Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories. Random House, 1991.Grades 9-12.PS 3553 .I78 W66 1992

Conrad, Pam.Our House: The Stories of Levittown.Scholastic, 1995.Grades 4-6.Curric. C7543o

Crutcher, Chris.Athletic Shorts: Six Short Stories.Greenwillow, 1991.Grades 9-12.Curric. C957a

Danticat, Edwidge.Krik? Krak! Soho Press, 1995.Grades 9-12. PS3554.A5815 K75 1995

Dickinson, Peter.The Lion-Tamer’s Daughter and Other Stories.Delacorte, 1997.Grades 9-12.Curric. D553L

Duncan, Lois, ed.  On the Edge: Stories at the Brink.  Simon, 2000.  Grades 7-12.  Available at Concordia Library  

---.  Night Terrors: Stories of Shadow and Substance.  Simon & Schuster, 1996.  Grades 7 and up.  Curric. N687

---.  Trapped! Cages of Mind and Body.Simon & Schuster, 1998.Grades 9-12.Available at Concordia Library

Durrell, Ann and Marilyn Sachs.The Big Book for Peace. Dutton, 1990.Grades 4-6.Curric. 810.8 B592

Ellis, Sarah.Back of Beyond: Stories of the Supernatural.Margaret K. McElderry Books, 1997.Grades 5-9.Curric. E476b 

Evans, Douglas.  Math Rashes and Other Classroom Tales.  Front Street, 2000.  Grades 2-4.  Available at Concordia Library

Flake, Sharon.  Who Am I Without Him?: Short Stories about Girls and the Boys in Their Lives.  Hyperion, 2004.  Grades 7 and up.  Curric. F576w

Fleishman, Paul.Coming-and-Going Men: Four Tales.Harper & Row, 1985.Grades 6 and up.Available at Concordia Library

---.  Graven Images: 3 Stories.Harper & Row, 1982.Grades 5-9.Curric. F5958

Frausch, Mary, ed.Coming of Age in America: A Multicultural Anthology.New Press, 1994.Grades 9-12.PS 509 .M5 C66 1994

Fraustino, Lisa Rowe, ed.Dirty Laundry: Stories about Family Secrets.Viking, 1998.Grades 9-12.Available at Concordia Library

Gallo, Donald R., ed. Easy Answers: Short Stories about Teenagers Making Tough Choices.Delacorte, 1997.Grades 9-12.Available at Concordia Library

---.Join In: Multiethnic Short Stories by Outstanding Writers for Young Adults.Delacorte, 1993.Grades 5-9.Available at Concordia Library  

---.  On the Fringe.  Dial, 2001.  Grades 7-10.  Available at Concordia Library

---.Sixteen: Short Stories by Outstanding Writers for Young Adults.Delacorte, 1984.Grades 7 and up.Curric. S625

---.Time Capsule: Short Stories about Teenagers Throughout the Twentieth Century.Delacorte, 1999.Grades 7-12.Available at Concordia Library

---.Ultimate Sports: Short Stories by Outstanding Writers for Young Adults.Delacorte, 1995.Grades 7 and up.Available at Concordia Library

Galloway, Priscilla.Truly Grim Tales.Delacorte, 1995.Grades 7 and up.Curric. G174t

Grima, Tony, ed.Not the Only One: Lesbian and Gay Fiction for Teens.Alyson, 1995.Grades 9-12.Available at Concordia Library

Hamanaka, Sheila.On the Wings of Peace.Clarion, 1995.Grades 4 and up.Curric. 810.8 O58 

Hearne, Betsy.  The Canine Connection: Stories about Dogs and People.  McElderry, 2003.  Grades 5-9.  Curric. H4363c

Howe, James, ed.  The Color of Absence: 12 Stories About Loss and Hope.  Atheneum, 2001.  Grades 7-10.  Curric. C7194

Hughes, Langston.Short Stories.Hill & Wang, 1996. Grades 9-12.  Available at Concordia Library  

Hughes, Ted.  How the Whale Became, and Other Stories.  Orchard, 2000.  Grades K-3.  Available at Concordia Library  

International Board on Books for Young People.  Stories from Across the Globe.  Scholastic, 2002.  Grades 5-9.  Curric. S8846i

Jimenez, Francisco.The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child.University of New Mexico Press, 1997.Grade 5 and up.Curric. J615c

Johnson, Angela.Gone from Home: Short Takes.DK Ink, 1998.Grades 7 and up.Curric. J661g

Karlin, Wayne, Le Minh Khue, and Truong Vu, eds.The Other Side of Heaven: Postwar Fiction by Vietnamese and American Writers.Curbstone Press, 1995.Grades 9-12.PN 6120.95 .V46 O87 1995

Kennedy, Richard.Richard Kennedy: Collected Stories.Harper & Row, 1987.Grades 3-5.Curric. K36r

Konigsburg, E. L.Altogether, One at a Time.Atheneum, 1971.Grades 4-6.Curric. K82al

---. Throwing Shadows.Atheneum, 1979.Grades 5 and up.Curric. K82t

Le Guin, Ursula K.Four Ways to Forgiveness.HarperPrism, 1995.Grades 9-12. Available at Concordia Library

L’Engle, Madeline, et al.Second Sight: Stories for a New Millennium.Philomel Books, 1999.Grades 9-12.Available at Concordia Library

Lesley, Craig, ed.Talking Leaves: Contemporary Native American Short Stories.Dell, 1991.Grades 9-12.Available at Concordia Library

Lester, Julius. Long Journey Home: Stories from Black History.Dial, 1972.Grades 5-9.Curric. L642L  

Macy, Sue.  Girls Got Game: Sports Stories and Poems.  Holt, 2001.  Grades 6-10.  Curric. 810.8 G525

Mahy, Margaret.  Don't Read This: And Other Tales of the Unnatural.  Front Street, 1998.  Grades 6-10.  Curric. D688

Marshall, James.Rats on the Range and Other Stories.Dial Books, 1993.Grades 2-4.Curric. M368rr

Mazer, Harry, ed.Twelve Shots: Outstanding Short Stories about Guns.Delacorte, 1997.Grades 9-12.Available at Concordia Library

McCullers, Carson. Collected Stories, Including The Member of the Wedding and The Ballad of the Sad Café.Houghton Mifflin, 1987.Grades 9-12.  PS 3525 .A1772 A15 1987

McKinley, Robin.  The Door in the Hedge.  Greenwillow, 1981.  Grades 6-8.  Curric. M1581d

--- .  A Knot in the Grain and Other Stories.Greenwillow, 1994.Grades 9-12.Curric. M1581k

---.  Water: Tales of Elemental Spirits.  Putnam's, 2002.  Grades 6-12.  Curric. M1581w

Mohr, Nicholasa.In Nueva York.Dial, 1977.Grades 9-12.Curric. M699i 1988 

Myers, Walter Dean.  145th Street: Short Stories.  Delacorte, 2000.  Grades 6-12.  Curric. M996on

Naidoo, Beverley.  Out of Bounds: Seven Stories of Conflict and Hope.  HarperCollins, 2003.  Grades 6-10.  Available at Concordia Library

Naylor, Gloria, ed.Children of the Night: The Best Short Stories by Black Writers.Little, Brown, 1996.Grades 9-12.PS 647 .A35 C5 1995  

Nixon, Joan.  Ghost Town: Seven Ghostly Stories.  Delacorte, 2000.  Grades 4-7.  Available at Concordia Library

O’Brien, Tim.The Things They Carried.Houghton Mifflin, 1990.Grades 9-12.PS 3565 .B75 T48 1990

Ortiz Cofer, Judith.An Island Like You: Stories of the Barrio.Orchard Books, 1995.Grades 9-12.Curric. C674i

Paterson, Katherine.Angels & Other Strangers: Family Christmas Stories.Crowell, 1979.Grades 5 and up.Curric. P296a

---.  A Midnight Clear: Stories for the Christmas Season.Lodestar Books, 1995. Grade 5 and up.Curric. P296mi

Pettepiece, Thomas and Anatoly Aleksin.Face to Face: A Collection of Stories.Philomel, 1990.Grades 5 and up.Curric. F138

Peyer, Bernd C., ed.The Singing Spirit: Early Short Stories by North American Indians.University of Arizona Press, 1989.Grades 9-12.PS508.I5 S56 1989

Philip, Neil, compiler.American Fairy Tales from Rip Van Winkle to the Rootabaga Stories.Hyperion, 1996.Grade 6 and up.Curric. A51213

Poey, Delia and Virgil Suarez, eds.Iguana Dreams: New Latino Fiction.HarperCollins, 1992.Grades 9-12.PS 647 .H58 I38 1992

Potok, Chaim.Zebra and Other Stories.Knopf, 1998.Grades 9-12.Curric. P864z

Proysen, Alf.  Mrs. Pepperpot Stories.  Red Fox, 2000.  Grades 3-5.  Available at Concordia Library  

Rice, David.  Crazy Loco.  Dial, 2001.  Grades 7-12.  Curric. R4955c

Rochman, Hazel, compiler.Bearing Witness: Stories of the Holocaust.Orchard Books, 1995.Grades 7 and up.Curric. 808.8 B368

---.Somehow Tenderness Survives: Stories of Southern Africa.Harper & Row, 1988.Grades 7 and up.Curric. S693

Rochman, Hazel and Darlene Z. McCampbell, compilers.Leaving Home: Stories.HarperCollins, 1997.Grades 7 and up.Curric. L4394

---.Who Do You Think You Are?Stories of Friends and Enemies.Little, Brown, 1993.Grades 9-12.Curric. W628

Rylant, Cynthia.  Children of Christmas: Stories for the Season.  Orchard, 1987.  Grades 4-6.  Curric. R994c

---.  A Couple of Kooks and Other Stories About Love.  Orchard Books, 1990.  Grades 7 and up.  Curric. R994co

---.  Every Living Thing.  Bradbury Press, 1985.  Grades 5-8.  Curric. R994e

Salisbury, Graham.  Island Boyz: Short Stories.  Wendy Lamb Books, 2002.  Grades 8-12.  Available at Concordia Library  

Schulman, L.M.  The Loners: Short Stories About the Young and Alienated.  Macmillan, 1970.  Grades 9-12.  Curric. S386L

Second Sight: Stories for a New Millennium.  Philomel, 1999.  Grades 7-12.  Available at Concordia Library  

Silverberg, Robert, ed.Legends: Short Novels by the Masters of Modern Fantasy.TOR Books, 1998.Grades 9-12.PS 648 .F3 L44 1998

Silvey, Anita, compiler.Help Wanted: Short stories about Young People Working.Little, Brown, 1997.Grades 9-12.Available at Concordia Library

Singer, Isaac Bashevis.The Death of Methuselah and Other Stories.Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1988.Grades 9-12.PJ 5129 .S49 A2 1988

---.The Image and Other Stories.Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1985.Grades 9-12.PJ 5129 .S49 A2 1985

---.Naftali the Storyteller and His Horse, Sus, and Other Stories.Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1976.Grades 4 and up.Curric. S617n

---.Stories for Children.Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1984.Grades 4 and up.Curric. S617s

Singer, Marilyn.  I Believe in Water: Twelve Brushes with Religion.  HarperCollins, 2000.  Grades 7-10.  Available at Concordia Library  

Sleator, William.  Oddballs: Stories.  Dutton, 1993.  Grades 6-8.  Curric. S632o

Snell, Gordon, ed.  Thicker Than Water: Coming-of-Age Stories by Irish and Irish American Writers.  Delacorte, 2001.  Grades 7-12.  Curric. T428

Soto, Gary.Baseball in April, and Other Stories.Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1990.Grades 5 and up.Curric. S718b

---.Local News.Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1993.Grades 5-9.Curric. S718L

---.Petty Crimes.Harcourt Brace, 1998.Grade 5 and up.Curric. S718pe

Spinelli, Jerry.The Library Card.Scholastic, 1997.Grade 4 and up.Curric. S757L

Vande Velde, Vivian.  Tales from the Brothers Grimm and the Sisters Weird.  Harcourt, 1995.  Grades 6-8.  Curric. 398.2 V225t

Velie, Alan R., ed.The Lightning Within: An Anthology of Contemporary American Indian Fiction.University of Nebraska Press, 1991.Grades 9-12.Available at Concordia Library

Washington, Mary Helen, ed.Invented Lives: Narratives of Black Women, 1860-1890.Anchor Press, 1987.Grades 9-12.Available at Concordia Library

Wilson, Budge.The Leaving and Other Stories.Philomel, 1992.Grades 9-12.Curric. W746L

Wynne-Jones, Tim.The Book of Changes: Stories.Orchard Books, 1995.Grades 4 and up.Curric. W989b

---.Some of the Kinder Planets: Stories.Orchard Books, 1995.Grades 4 and up.Curric. W989s

Yee, Paul.Tales from Gold Mountain: Stories of the Chinese in the New World.Macmillan, 1989.Grades 5-9.Curric. Y43t

Yolen, Jane, ed.  Sherwood: Original Stories from the World of Robin Hood.  Philomel, 2000.  Grades 4-9.  Curric. S5542

 

Selected by Carol H. Sibley and Sarah Smedman from Children’s Catalog, Middle & Junior High School Library Catalog, and Senior High School Library Catalog.Minnesota State University Moorhead, Moorhead, Minnesota, 6/03; 3/06.