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
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
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
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
