Best Short Stories For Young Adults - April 2024

Sixteen: Short Stories by Outstanding Writers for Young Adults

Here are sixteen representative stories for the  eighties, written especially for this collection by  today's best-known writers for teenagers. Their  impressions radiate through an emotional prism of  hope and hate, love and death, despair and joy, in a  diverse yet strikingly unified collection.

• ASIN: 0440977576
• ASIN: 0440977576
• ISBN: 0440977576
• Manufacturer: Laurel Leaf

Best Short Stories of the Modern Age

The short-stroy form continues to be a rich and fertile vein of literary expression. Collected in this remarkable volume are twenty renowned writers of the modern age who brilliantly mastered the distinctive power and beauty of the form--each bringing his or her own unique vision to the page. This powerful collection includes the work of: Sherwood Anderson, Anton Chekov, Joseph Conrad, Shirley Jackson, D.H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, Lionel Trilling, and many more.

• ASIN: 0449300587
• ASIN: 0449300587
• ISBN: 0449300587
• Manufacturer: Fawcett

The Best American Short Stories 2010 (The Best American Series ®)

Edited by the award-winning, best-selling author Richard Russo, this year’s collection boasts a satisfying “chorus of twenty stories that are by turns playful, ironic, somber, and meditative” (Wall Street Journal). With the masterful Russo picking the best of the best, America’s oldest and best-selling story anthology is sure to be of “enduring quality” (Chicago Tribune) this year.

• ASIN: 0547055323
• ASIN: 0547055323
• ISBN: 9780547055329
• Brand: Mariner Books /Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Manufacturer: Mariner Books /Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

100 Years of The Best American Short Stories (The Best American Series ®)

The Best American Short Stories is the longest running and best-selling series of short fiction in the country. For the centennial celebration of this beloved annual series, master of the form Lorrie Moore selects forty stories from the more than two thousand that were published in previous editions. Series editor Heidi Pitlor recounts behind-the-scenes anecdotes and examines, decade by decade, the trends captured over a hundred years. Together, the stories and commentary offer an extraordinary guided tour through a century of literature with what Moore calls “all its wildnesses of characte... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0547485859
• ASIN: 0547485859
• ISBN: 0547485859
• Brand: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Best Fiction: Book Recommendations-Best Books & Best Short Stories, Including Best Young Adult Books & Good Reads Ranging from Best Historical Fiction to Best Love Stories & Serious Novels (Volume 2)

Take the luck out of finding a book to get lost in. Whether you seek the best fiction from contemporary authors or tried and true classics, reading recommendations encompass over 400 of the best books in 45 fiction genres, according to a team of book world insiders. The book recommendations include gripping novels of all stripes, from the best historical fiction and young adult novels, to collections of the best short stories and classic novels. Good books to read are no longer so hard to find with this novel guide! With far more fiction selections — over 200 more than its parent title, “... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1505480809
• ASIN: 1505480809
• ISBN: 1505480809
• Manufacturer: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America

Edited by National Book Award finalist Ibi Zoboi, and featuring some of the most acclaimed bestselling Black authors writing for teens today—Black Enough is an essential collection of captivating stories about what it’s like to be young and Black in America.Black is...sisters navigating their relationship at summer camp in Portland, Oregon, as written by Renée Watson.Black is…three friends walking back from the community pool talking about nothing and everything, in a story by Jason Reynolds.Black is…Nic Stone’s high-class beauty dating a boy her momma would never approve of.Black i... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0062698729
• ASIN: 0062698729
• ISBN: 0062698729
• Manufacturer: Balzer + Bray

Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories

• ASIN: 0374518688
• ASIN: 0374518688
• ISBN: 0374518688
• Brand: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Laughter Really Is The Best Medicine: America's Funniest Jokes, Stories, and Cartoons

Collected from one of the omst popular features of Reader's Digest magazine, this compliation of more than 1,000 all-new jokes, quotes, anecdotes, quips, and cartoons is guaranteed to make you laugh out loud each day.This collection of laugh-out-loud jokes, one-liners, and other lighthearted glimpses of life-drawn from Reader's Digest magazine's most popular humor columns-is sure to tickle the funny bone. Packed with more than 1,000 jokes, anecdotes, cartoons, quotes, quips, funny things kids say, and stories contributed by professional comedians, joke writers, and readers of the magazine, th... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1606522043
• ASIN: 1606522043
• ISBN: 9781606522042
• Brand: Reader's Digest
• Manufacturer: Reader's Digest

City of Girls: A Novel

• ASIN: B07HZ2Q1MK
• ASIN: B07HZ2Q1MK
• Manufacturer: Riverhead Books

The Best American Short Stories 2008 Pa (The Best American Series ®)

This brilliant collection, edited by the award-winning and perennially provocative Salman Rushdie, boasts a “magnificent array” (Library Journal) of voices both new and recognized.With Rushdie at the helm, the 2008 edition “reflects the variety of substance and style and the consistent quality that readers have come to expect” (Publishers Weekly).“We all live in and with and by stories, every day, whoever and wherever we are. The freedom to tell each other the stories of ourselves, to retell the stories of our culture and beliefs, is profoundly connected to the larger subject of free... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0618788778
• UPC: 046442788779
• ASIN: 0618788778
• ISBN: 0618788778
• Manufacturer: Mariner

Fifty Great Short Stories (Bantam Classics)

50 Great Short Stories is a comprehensive selection from the world’s finest short fiction. The authors represented range from Hawthorne, Maupassant, and Poe, through Henry James, Conrad, Aldous Huxley, and James Joyce, to Hemingway, Katherine Anne Porter, Faulkner, E.B. White, Saroyan, and O’Connor. The variety in style and subject is enormous, but all these stories have one point in common—the enduring quality of the writing, which places them among the masterpieces of the world’s fiction.

• ASIN: 0553277456
• ASIN: 0553277456
• ISBN: 0553277456
• Brand: Bantam Classics
• Manufacturer: Bantam Classics

The Finest Hours (Young Readers Edition): The True Story of a Heroic Sea Rescue (True Rescue Series)

This adaptation for young readers of The Finest Hours: The True Story of the US Coast Guard's Most Daring Sea Rescue by Michael J. Tougias and Casey Sherman tells the story of the shipwreck of two oil tankers and the harrowing Coast Guard rescue when four men in a tiny lifeboat overcame insurmountable odds and saved more than 30 stranded sailors. Now a major motion picture from Disney, starring Chris Pine and Casey Affleck.On the night of February 18, 1952, during one of the worst winter storms that New England has ever seen, two oil tankers just off the shore of Cape Cod were torn in half. Wi... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1250044235
• ASIN: 1250044235
• ISBN: 1250044235
• Brand: Tougias Michael J
• Manufacturer: Square Fish

A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story

The New York Times bestseller A Long Walk to Water begins as two stories, told in alternating sections, about two eleven-year-olds in Sudan, a girl in 2008 and a boy in 1985. The girl, Nya, is fetching water from a pond that is two hours’ walk from her home: she makes two trips to the pond every day. The boy, Salva, becomes one of the "lost boys" of Sudan, refugees who cover the African continent on foot as they search for their families and for a safe place to stay. Enduring every hardship from loneliness to attack by armed rebels to contact with killer lions and crocodiles, Salva is a surv... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0547577311
• ASIN: 0547577311
• ISBN: 0547577311
• Brand: Clarion Books
• Manufacturer: HMH Books for Young Readers

438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea

Declared “the best survival book in a decade” by Outside Magazine, 438 Days is the true story of the man who survived fourteen months in a small boat drifting seven thousand miles across the Pacific Ocean.On November 17, 2012, two men left the coast of Mexico for a weekend fishing trip in the open Pacific. That night, a violent storm ambushed them as they were fishing eighty miles offshore. As gale force winds and ten-foot waves pummeled their small, open boat from all sides and nearly capsized them, captain Salvador Alvarenga and his crewmate cut away a two-mile-long fishing line and bega... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1501116304
• ASIN: 1501116304
• ISBN: 1501116304
• Brand: Atria Books
• Manufacturer: Atria Books

Poe: Stories and Poems: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Gareth Hinds

In a thrilling adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s best-known works, acclaimed artist-adapter Gareth Hinds translates Poe's dark genius into graphic-novel format.It is true that I am nervous. But why will you say that I am mad?In “The Cask of Amontillado,” a man exacts revenge on a disloyal friend at carnival, luring him into catacombs below the city. In “The Masque of the Red Death,” a prince shielding himself from plague hosts a doomed party inside his abbey stronghold. A prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition, faced with a swinging blade and swarming rats, can’t see his tormentors in �... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0763695092
• ASIN: 0763695092
• ISBN: 0763695092
• Manufacturer: Candlewick

You Read to Me, I'll Read to You: Very Short Stories to Read Together (Paperback)

The fourth entry in the irresistible You Read to Me collection now offers scary fun with the addition of spooky tales just right for Halloween or any other spook-tacular day. Full

• UPC: 4170497
• Rating: 4.3333

Vandals 2 (A Young Adult Short Story) - eBook

Vandals 2 is the second short story in the Vandals series by bestselling author R. Barri Flowers. In this young adult tale, youths plot to vandalize their high school and pay the price with unforeseen

• UPC: 954092441

The Collection of Short Stories for Children and Young Adults - eBook

I originally began creating childrens stories when I was a child myself. After I had grown up and was on a camping trip with three young children, they asked me to tell them a story.

• UPC: 985849282

Black Enough : Stories of Being Young & Black in America

Edited by National Book Award finalist Zoboi and featuring some of the most acclaimed bestselling Black authors writing for teens today, this volume contains captivating stories about what it's like to be young and Black

• UPC: 408285034

The Knife of Never Letting Go (Reissue with bonus short story) : Chaos Walking: Book One

Readers are in for a white-knuckle journey in this series that follows a boy and girl on the run from a town where all thoughts can be heard--and the passage into manhood embodies a horrible

• UPC: 36439272
• Rating: 4.2804

The Ask and the Answer (Reissue with bonus short story) : Chaos Walking: Book Two

Includes bonus short story, "The wide, wide sea" a Chaos walking

• UPC: 36439273
• Rating: 4.3617

Monsters of Men (Reissue with bonus short story) : Chaos Walking: Book Three

As a world-ending war surges to life around them, Todd and Viola face monstrous decisions, questioning all they have ever known as they try to step back from the darkness and find the best way

• UPC: 36439271
• Rating: 4.3043

145th Street: Short Stories

A salty, wrenchingly honest collection of stories from a Coretta Scott King Honor winner, set on one block of 145th

• UPC: 17252029
• Rating: 4.2857

Taste Berries for Teens 3 : Inspirational Short Stories and Encouragement on Life, Love and Friends-Including the One in the Mirror

This collection contains inspirational short stories and encouragement on life, love and friends--including the one in the

• UPC: 25227879

Middle Unearthed : The Best Fantasy Short Stories 1800-1849

Before there was a lovable green ogre called Shrek and a bespeckled wizard named Harry Potter, there were the best fantasy short stories published in English during the first half of the nineteenth century. These

• UPC: 635749035
• Rating: 5.0

Vintage Paperback Still More of the Best Stories for Girls (Formerly Like It Is)

• UPC: 333309027131
• Category: Children & YA Fiction
• Price: 5 USD

Readers Digest Best Loved Books for Young Readers 3 Hardback Classics

• UPC: 223710113095
• Category: Children & YA Fiction
• Price: 10 USD

A Batch of the Best Stories for Girls - A Whitman Book - 1970

• UPC: 274273916538
• Category: Children & YA Fiction
• Price: 2 USD

Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare (Paperback, 1995) Best Book Free Post

• UPC: 303476457277
• Category: Fiction
• Price: 2 GBP