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Whodunit?: detective stories
By Philip Pullman. 2007
Sixteen stories of crimes ranging from cold-blooded murder to dognapping, in settings that include an Egyptian tomb, a sinister English…
country house, and New York City streets. In "Butch Minds the Baby" by Damon Runyon, a safecracker takes his infant son along on a job. For grades 6-9. 1998How they met, and other stories
By David Levithan. 2008
Eighteen short stories about love in all its variations, written by the author when he was in high school. In…
"Andrew Chang" a Chinese teenager goes on a date arranged by her parents, but she doesn't realize she is going to a prom. For senior high readers. 2008Unaccustomed earth
By Jhumpa Lahiri. 2008
Eight short stories by Pulitzer Prize-winning author explore the nature of family and love. In the title story, a mother…
in Seattle nervously hosts her widowed father, who helps tend her garden but hides a secret. Bestseller. 2008Three-ten to Yuma: and other stories
By Elmore Leonard. 2007
Seven tales set in the 1880s Arizona Territory. In the title entry a deputy marshal faces the task of escorting…
a train robber onto a train without either of them getting killed. Originally published in the 1950s. Some violence and some strong language. 2006Just after sunset: stories
By Stephen King. 2008
Thirteen suspenseful short stories. In "The Gingerbread Girl" a grieving woman whose baby has died retreats to the Florida Keys…
only to encounter a serial killer. In "The Things They Left Behind" a man finds items belonging to his murdered coworkers in his apartment. Violence and strong language. Bestseller. 2008Crime and punishment: A Collection of Short Stories (Vintage classics)
By Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Bill Meissner. 1993
An impoverished student, Raskolnikov, convinces himself that he is above the law and murders an elderly pawnbroker. But his subsequent…
guilt is overwhelming. Acclaimed 1992 translation into English by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky from the 1866 Russian original. Some violence. 1993The Rumpelstiltskin problem
By Vivian Vande Velde. 2002
Baseball crazy: ten short stories that cover all the bases
By Nancy Mercado, Nancy E. Mercado. 2008
Ten authors write about hometown baseball and its players--good, mediocre, and bad. In Joseph Bruchac's "Ball Hawk," Mitchell, whose deceased…
father was a Native American and a great ball player, heeds his uncle's lessons and finally hits a long, high ball to an unusual catcher. For grades 4-7. 2008Passion and poison: tales of shape-shifters, ghosts, and spirited women
By Janice Del Negro. 2007
Eerie stories of things that are not what they seem. In "Skulls and Bones, Ghosts and Gold" housekeeper Pearl braves…
a cemetery at midnight to fetch a skull and win a bet for her master. In "Rubies" a woman tries to avenge her sister's murder. For grades 5-8. 2007Beethoven was one-sixteenth black: and other stories
By Nadine Gordimer. 2007
Short stories by Nobel Prize-winning South African author. In the title piece, a white professor and former antiapartheid activist travels…
to diamond country to investigate his British great-grandfather's past. In "The First Sense" a European immigrant seamstress is more successful than her educated husband. Some strong language. 2007Further chronicles of Avonlea (Children's Continuous Ser.)
By L. M Montgomery. 1920
Anne of Green Gables lives near Avonlea, a town on the seaside hills of Prince Edward Island. In this second…
volume of stories about Anne's neighbors, a girl risks losing her mother to find her long-lost father, and a ghost leads a woman to her dream. For grades 5-8. 1920Talking to the enemy: stories
By Avner Mandelman. 2005
Nine stories about the Israeli experience. In "Terror" a father beats the son who fails to stand up for his…
five-year-old brother, thus instilling the precept that, right or wrong, family comes first, even before justice or fear. Strong language and some violence. Sophie Brody Medal. 2005Chronicles of Avonlea (Avonlea Ser. #No. 3)
By L. M Montgomery. 1993
Twelve stories about residents of Prince Edward Island, home to Anne Shirley and Green Gables farm. Includes the tales of…
Old Lady Lloyd's deep secret and the fifteen-year courtship of shy Theodora Dix. Companion to the Anne of Green Gables series. For grades 5-8. 1912Sugar and spice
By Fern Michaels, Beverly Barton, Joanne Fluke, Shirley Jump. 2006
Four short holiday love stories. In "The Christmas Stocking," two separate trips home to Virginia at Christmastime to help elderly…
parents turn into one shared love affair for Gus and Amy. In "Twelve Days," Natalie is the "secret Santa" for her secret love. Some descriptions of sex. 2006Right livelihoods: three novellas
By Rick Moody. 2007
Three novellas about post-9/11 life. In The Omega Force a retired government employee becomes obsessed with the thought of foreigners…
invading. In K and K a manager receives threatening notes in the office suggestion box. In The Albertine Notes survivors in a bombed-out Manhattan become drug addicts. Strong language. 2007The school for heiresses (School For Heiresses Ser.)
By Sabrina Jeffries, Liz Carlyle, Julia London, Renee Bernard. 2007
Eccentric headmistress Charlotte Harris instructs the nouveau riche students at her School for Heiresses that young women should marry for…
love and passion and avoid fortune hunters and rogues. Four of her pupils--Eliza, Martinique, Grace, and Alyssa--have adventures on their way to the altar. Explicit descriptions of sex. 2006Owning it: stories about teens with disabilities
By Donald R. Gallo. 2008
Ten tales of teens dealing with school, teachers, parents, friends, the opposite sex--and a physical or mental disability. In "See…
You" two legally blind classmates are bullied. "Brainiac" portrays a girl's return to college after a brain-damaging accident. Some violence and some strong language. For senior high readers. 2008Eight short detective tales and one of semisupernatural drama. In the title story, Mr. Parker Pyne seeks a thief when…
a diamond goes missing from a yachting party. In "Yellow Iris," Hercule Poirot solves one crime and thwarts another at a dinner party. Miss Marple shares a mystery tale. 1934Westerns of the 40's: classics from the great pulps
By Damon Knight. 1977
Compilation of sixteen short western stories from magazines of the 1940s. Includes works by John D. MacDonald, Tom Roan, Roy…
M. O'Mara, James Shaffer, Cliff Farrell, and others. Contains tales of revenge, range wars, roving saddle bums, and ladies of the night. Some violence. 1977Howard who?: stories
By Howard Waldrop. 1986
Twelve short stories. In "Heirs of the Perisphere" a robot dog, duck, and rodent spontaneously animated in a long-abandoned cartoon…
automaton factory find a world much different from their own. Also includes the Nebula and World Fantasy Award-winning "The Ugly Chickens" and "Horror, We Got." 1986