Children's & Young Adult Fiction : Short Stories

Before MP3 players, DVDs, and video games, before even TV and radio, American children entertained themselves by reading. This title aims to bring together twenty-six stories from "The Youth's Companion" and "St Nicholas" to offer a perspective on the values of the time. more...

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ONE DAY, MR. Bambert, a sweet but shy man, decides to send 11 stories out into the world. He attaches them to little hot-air balloons and lets them go on windy nights with a letter asking that whoever finds them send them back. Wherever the stories are returned from is where they will be set. more...

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Indulge Yourself with the best classic literature on Your PDA. Navigate easily to any novel from Table of Contents or search for the words or phrases. Author''s biography and story in the trial version. Table of Contents. The Tale of Peter Rabbit. The Tailor of Gloucester. The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin. The Tale of Benjamin Bunny. The Tale of Two Bad Mice. The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle. The Pie and the Patty-Pan. The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher. The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit. The Story of Miss Moppet. The Tale of Tom Kitten. The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck. The Roly-Poly Pudding. The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies. The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse. The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes. The Tale of Mr. Tod. The Tale of Pigling Bland. Ginger and Pickles. The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse. Cecily Parsley''s Nursery Rhymes. . more...

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What shall we do, all of us?. All of us passionate girls who fear crushing the boys we love with our mouths like caverns of teeth, our mushrooming brains, our watermelon hearts?. What's real is what's imagined in nine tales of transformation by Francesca Lia Block. more...

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From Lauren Groff, author of the critically acclaimed and bestselling first novel The Monsters of Templeton, comes Delicate Edible Birds, one of the most striking short fiction debuts in recent years. Here are nine stories of astonishing insight and variety, each revealing a resonant drama within the life of a twentieth-century American woman. In “Sir Fleeting,” a Midwestern farm girl on her honeymoon in Argentina falls into lifelong lust for a French playboy. In “Blythe,” an attorney who has become a stay-at-home mother takes a night class in poetry and meets another full-time mother, one whose charismatic brilliance changes everything. In “The Wife of the Dictator,” that eponymous wife (“brought back . . . from [the dictator’s] last visit to America”) grows more desperately, menacingly isolated every day. In “Delicate Edible Birds,” a group of war correspondents—a lone, high-spirited woman among them—falls sudden prey to a brutal farmer while fleeing Nazis in the French countryside. In “Lucky Chow Fun,” Groff returns us to Templeton, the setting of her first book, for revelations about the darkness within even that idyllic small town. In some of these stories, enormous changes happen in an instant. In others, transformations occur across a lifetime—or several lifetimes. Throughout the collection, Groff displays particular and vivid preoccupations. Crime is a motif—sex crimes, a possible murder, crimes of the heart. Love troubles recur; they’re in every story—love in alcoholism, in adultery, in a flood, even in the great flu epidemic of 1918. Some of the love has depths, which are understood too late; some of the love is shallow, and also understood too late. And mastery is a theme—Groff’s women swim and baton twirl, become poets, or try and try again to achieve the inner strength to exercise personal freedom. Overall, these stories announce a notable new litera more...

Price: $17.95