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By Helen Porter. 1991
In this collection of short stories, women are portrayed at many stages in their lives, adolescence experiences of awkwardness; the…
heartache of first love; the career woman concerned with her children and husband; and the 70-year-old contemplating suicide in the face of illness. Strong language. For senior high and older readers. c1991.By L. M Montgomery, Catherine M McLay. 1979
A country doctor never loses faith in the young woman who swears to return to him; an estranged wife bets…
her future happiness on a horse race; two maiden ladies, scared onto a roof by a dog, ponder marriage to the dog's owner as the price of rescue. Contains 14 previously uncollected stories, published between 1899 and 1935. Grades 5-8. 1979.By Deni Ellis Béchard. 2011
[...] Affronter le héros de l'histoire quon sécrit poser passer pour un lâche ; travailler, travailler, travailler un héros, il…
faut que ça travaille ; aller au bout de soi, quelle que soit lépoque ou le lieu ; prendre sa vie en main ; être intimement convaincu qu'un héros sommeille en nous, n'attendant que les circonstances pour se manifester [...]. Être un héros, cest tout ça. Du héros de papier au héros de l'histoire, du héros de tous les jours au héros dun soir, neuf auteurs de la relève déclinent ce thème avec sincérité et sérieux, mais aussi avec humour. Pour les lecteurs d’école secondaire. 2011.By Sharon English. 2002
In this collection of short stories, Germaine Stevens attends a preppie high school. She belongs to the only counter-culture group,…
the Rockers, and her friends are desperate people. But no one is as disaffected as they seem, or want, to be. For junior and senior high readers. 2002.By Joan Bodger. 2003
Presents the author's wonderful retellings of seven English, Irish, and Welsh tales. Tristan, Iron John, Burd Janet and Tamlane and…
others come to life with language that speaks to the stories' origins, but will engage modern readers. Grades 4-7. 2003.By Brian Jacques. 2004
Six scary (but not too scary) ghost stories from the author of the Redwall series. In the title story, the…
nasty Archibald Smifft summons an occult creature, the Ribbajack, to do his evil bidding. In "Miggy Mags and the Malabar Sailor," a mongoose champions a young girl against her abusive uncle, and "Rosie's Pet" is a preadolescent werewolf love story. Grades 5-8. 2004.By Ernest Thompson Seton. 1898
By Hy Conrad. 2003
These are some of the most treacherous, confounding crimes ever committed, and it's up to you to solve them with…
the help of Sergeant Gunther Wilson and the mysterious Sherman Holmes. Was the murdered policeman found in the precinct house killed by a fellow officer? Was the bag of money missing from an armoured truck stolen or did it just fall into the road? Solutions for each mystery are given at the end of the book. For junior and senior high readers. 2003.By Angèle Delaunois. 1997
By Penelope Lively, John Lawrence. 1984
One way and another the children in this collection of short stories get into some pretty odd situations. A Martian…
comes to stay and Peter's gran knits him a sweater; a dragon which lives under the floor of an old house causes problems for the two brothers who discover him and the Hancock's house is taken over by mushrooms. Grades 4-7. 1984.By Jane Yolen. 1997
A collection of twelve fantasy stories. Some are modern versions of well-known tales: "Tough Alice" is a variation on Alice…
in Wonderland, "The Bridge's Complaint" comes from The Three Billygoats Gruff, and "Lost Girls" is based on Peter Pan. Others include characters from a fairy to a sea monster to aliens. Grades 5-8. 1997.By Ursula K Le Guin. 2004
A retrospective collection of 17 of the Nebula Award winner's best short fiction pieces. The stories range from fantasy to…
intriguing scientific possibilities, from medieval settings to the future. For high school and adult readers. 2004, c1975.By Rudyard Kipling, W. W Robson. 1895
Presents the further adventures of Mowgli, a boy reared by a pack of wolves, and the wild animals of the…
jungle. Also includes other short stories set in India. Sequel to "The jungle book" (DC04437). Grades 4-7. c1895.Three-hundred years before the Grimm brothers, Pu Sung-ling, a Chinese scholar, collected more than 500 folktales from his native land.…
Read exciting tales of the supernatural in which restless ghosts chase travelers, several men find love with spirit wives, and a magician fits a houseful of servants in the sleeves of his robe! Though the stories reflect Chinese culture, echoes of familiar Western and Biblical tales are recognizable. Some descriptions of violence and sex. CLA Award finalist 2005. For Junior and Senior High readers. c2003.By Budge Wilson. 1990
The agony and ecstacy of adolescence are captured in these nine short stories, each with a female protagonist. In the…
title story, a girl and her mother flee their oppressive home life on the farm for three seminal days in the city. Other stories tell of the embarrassment of a first crush and the rivalry between friends that leads to betrayal. Grades 5-8 and older. Canadian Young Adult Award. 1990.By Allen Morgan. 1984
By Homer, Mary Pope Osborne, James Simmons. 2007
A children's collection of Osborne's re-tellings of some of the episodes in Homer's Odyssey. When Odysseus must leave his home…
to fight in the Trojan War, he never imagines that he will be away from his family for so many years. Now, at long last, he is leading his men home across the seas. Many dangers await them - including Polyphemus, the one-eyed giant, Circe, the beautiful witch, sirens, and the Land of the Dead. Grades 5-8. 2007. One-eyed giant -- Land of the dead -- Sirens and the sea monster -- Gray-eyed goddess -- Return to Ithaca -- Final battle.By Erckmann-Chatrian, Jean Baptiste Baronian. 1987
By Sharon Flake. 2011
Tow-Kaye just learned that the love of his life is pregnant - and though he knows what the right thing…
to do is, he's scared to death to do it. Jeffrey hates having a mom who dresses like a teenager, but when another sexy mom moves in next door - well, that's a different kind of problem. In these and twenty-two other short stories and poems, readers plumb the inner lives of African American teenage boys. Junior and Senior High. 2011.By Marie-Antoinette Grégoire-Coupal. 1993