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The adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Classic starts)
Par Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Lucy Corvino, Chris Sasaki. 2005
A retelling of Arthur Conan Doyle's stories of beloved amateur detective Sherlock Holmes, the master of deductive reasoning, who solves…
several mysteries with the aid of his friend, Dr. John Watson. For grades 3-6. 2005Mestiza blood
Par V. Castro. 2022
A short story collection of nightmares and desires centered around the Chicana experience. V. Castro weaves urban legend, folklore, life…
experience, and heartache in this personal journey beginning in south Texas, with a vengeful chola at the beginning of the apocalypse. Violence, strong language, and some explicit descriptions of sex. 2022Nine Florida stories (Florida sand dollar book)
Par Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Kevin M. McCarthy, William L. Trotter. 1990
First published from the 1920s to 1940s in the Saturday Evening Post, these stories embody the environmental concerns of Marjory…
Stoneman Douglas. Set in various parts of South Florida, they reflect conditions, including threats to wildlife, land, and water, that endanger the uniqueness of the region. Douglas's characters range from smugglers to a farm worker, and include veiled autobiographical bits about the indomitable authorMercies so tender (California Pioneer Ser.)
Par Elaine L. Schulte. 1995
Trouble is brewing in the "border states" -- and Kate's strong opinions about slavery are getting her into trouble. But…
where can she run to hide from the growing controversy? 1995. Sixth book in the California Pioneer series. Sequel to "Peace Like a River."At the villa of reduced circumstances (Professor Dr von Igelfeld Series #3)
Par Alexander McCall Smith. 2003
Von Igelfeld gets caught up in a nasty case of academic intrigue while on sabbatical at Cambridge. When he returns…
to Regensburg he is confronted with the thrilling news that someone from a foreign embassy has actually checked his masterwork, Portuguese Irregular Verbs, out of the Institute's Library. As a result, he gets caught up in intrigue of a different sort on a visit to Bogota, ColombiaTicket to Minto: stories of India and America (Iowa Short Fiction Award Ser.)
Par Sohrab Homi Fracis. 2001
Ticket to Minto, Sohrab Homi Fracis's premier fiction collection, offers readers a passage to an unfamiliar destination-a world suspended between…
East and West, India and America, home and away. With piercing insight, Fracis expertly reveals the underlying differences between immersion in India's culture-Hindu, Muslim, or Parsi-and life as an Indian in America. Alternating between East and West, the stories in Ticket to Minto serve as companion pieces, interrelated across continents in both theme and content. A middle-aged man's search for love in Bombay is contrasted with an Indian American family's hopes for the marriage of their westernized daughter. A university student rushes to save the life of a servant in his homeland only to find his own life threatened while attending graduate school in America. Poignant and daring, Ticket to Minto underlines the harsh realization that the immigrant never truly arrives but is in constant limbo between two worlds. As one character relates, "There's a part of me that's American and a part that's Indian. I'm clear about that and comfortable with it, except that sometimes people want me to be just the one or the other."More Rootabaga stories
Par Carl Sandburg. 1923
As noted in the foreword, Sandburg, searching for bedtime stories for his three daughters, lamented the lack of fairy tales…
native to the United States. So, the famous poet wrote his own, which he described as "tales with American fooling in them." Indeed, there is "fooling" and whimsy aplenty in this collection of ten previously unpublished stories of nonsense about the American Middle West. For grades 4-7Arranged marriage: stories
Par Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. 1996
Sing a song of tuna fish: a memoir of my fifth-grade year
Par Esmé Raji Codell, LeUyen Pham. 2006
The author has pulled events from her own fifth-grade diaries to give the reader a taste of what it was…
like growing up in Chicago in 1978 as a member of a free-spirited family. For grades 5-8 and older readersMore two-minute mysteries
Par Donald J. Sobol. 1971
Nine short stories set in Hawaii featuring the nuanced voices and interior lives of housewives, mechanics, cabdrivers, aging hippies, and…
bargirls. The worlds of Pak's Hawaiians, Asian locals, and the haoles sometimes intersect and collide and other times remain parallel, but each world is haunted by the past. Whether Pak evokes shadows of World War II, the Vietnam War, the radical 60's, or the military dictatorship of Chun Doo Hwan in Korea, the larger historical context looms ominously in the background. Contains explicit descriptions of sexHis hideous heart: thirteen of Edgar Allan Poe's most unsettling tales reimagined
Par Dahlia Adler. 2019
Thirteen of Edgar Allan Poe's terrifying works are reimagined in new and unexpected ways from YA authors such as Kendare…
Blake, Tiffany D. Jackson, and Lamar Giles. Includes the original tales from Poe for comparison. Some violence and some strong language. For senior high and older readers. 2019Naked
Par David Sedaris. 2009
A humorous memoir of bizarre and absurd experiences with family, friends, and strangers. The title essay recounts the author's visit…
to a nudist colony, where he painfully faces coming to terms with his naked self. Strong language and some descriptions of sex. 1997Fragile things: short fictions and wonders
Par Neil Gaiman. 2018
Thirty-one fantasy, gothic, and science fiction tales published between 1990 and 2006. Includes the Hugo Award-winning "A Study in Emerald"…
and "How to Talk to Girls at Parties," the basis for a 2018 film. Some violence, some strong language, and some descriptions of sex. 2006Black enough: stories of being young & Black in America
Par Coe Booth, Kekla Magoon, Rita Williams-Garcia, Varian Johnson, Tracey Baptiste, Justina Ireland, Jason Reynolds, Lamar Giles, Brandy Colbert, Dhonielle Clayton, Ibi Zoboi, Leah Henderson, Renée Watson, Nic Stone, Liara Tamani, Tochi Onyebuchi, Jay Coles. 2019
Seventeen short stories explore what it is like to be young and black, and emphasize that one person's experiences, reality,…
and personal identity are different from someone else's. Contributors include René Watson, Kekla Magoon, Jason Reynolds, and Justina Ireland. Strong language. For senior high and older readers. 2019Nine from the Nine Worlds: stories (Magnus Chase And The Gods Of Asgard Ser.)
Par Rick Riordan. 2018
Nine short stories, each set in a different one of the Nine Worlds from Norse mythology. Companion to the Magnus…
Chase and the Gods of Asgard series. For grades 6-9. 2018Unbroken: 13 stories starring disabled teens
Par Marieke Nijkamp. 2018
Thirteen short stories in various genres, each featuring characters with disabilities. In Francisco X. Stork's " Captain, My Captain," Alberto…
hears the voice of Captain America, but also listens to a friend. Strong language. For senior high and older readers. 2018Fairy tales for the disillusioned: enchanted stories from the French decadent tradition (Oddly Modern Fairy Tales Ser. #11)
Par Gretchen Schultz, Lewis Seifert. 2016
A collection of thirty-six fairy tales written by authors of the decadent literary movement in nineteenth-century France. Drawing on classic…
French tales as well as Arthurian legends and English and German stories, the themes include the decline of civilization, gender confusion, and the incursion of industrialization. Some violence. 2016The best of Richard Matheson (Penguin classics)
Par Richard Matheson. 2017
A collection of thirty-three short stories from the author of I Am Legend (BR 19204), written between 1950 and 2008.…
One famous tale is "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet," about an airline passenger who is the sole witness to a monster attacking the plane. Some violence. 2017