Read In Week 2020 (Read Around the World) for Junior High and High School StudentsLike this list

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• The Chronicles of Harris Burdick

  14 Amazing Authors Tell the Tales

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  Harris Burdick is an enigmatic artist who left behind illustrations with no stories. In this collection of short stories a number of imaginative storytellers try to put words to these illustrations. Including Stephen King, Lois Lowry, Jon Scieszka…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Thousand Beginnings and Endings

  15 Retellings of Asian Myths and Legends

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  Fifteen bestselling and acclaimed authors reimagine the folklore and mythology of East and South Asia in short stories that are by turns enchanting, heartbreaking, romantic, and passionate. Star-crossed lovers, meddling immortals, feigned…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Yellowcake

  Stories

  Lanagan, Margo, 1960-

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  Yellowcake brings together ten short stories from the extraordinarily talented Margo Lanagan--each of them fiercely original and quietly heartbreaking. The stories range from fantasy and fairy tale to horror and stark reality, and yet what pervades…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Curiosities

  A Collection of Stories

  Yovanoff, Brenna • Gratton, Tessa • Stiefvater, Maggie

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  From acclaimed YA authors Maggie Stiefvater, Tessa Gratton, and Brenna Yovanoff comes The Curiosities: A Collection of Stories. But The Curiosities is more than the stories. Since 2008, Maggie, Tessa, and Brenna have posted more than 250 works of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Under My Hat

  Tales From the Cauldron

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  The biggest names in fantasy and young adult literature have come together to make a little magic of their own. Neil Gaiman, Holly Black, Diana Peterfreund, Margo Lanagan, Peter S. Beagle, and Garth Nix are just a few of the authors who have toiled…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Agent Mongoose and the Hypno-beam Scheme

  Jolley, Dan

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  If you're looking for something more light hearted. Your top-secret mission: defeat an evil mastermind. But you'll have to find him first, and spies are all around you! Every Twisted Journeys(R) graphic novel lets YOU control the action by choosing…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Cornered

  14 Stories of Bullying and Defiance

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  If you're looking for something that deals with real life issues. This fourteen-story YA fiction anthology delves into the experience of being bullied—socially, emotionally, physically, psychologically, and sexually. The school hallways, walks…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Button, Button

  Uncanny Stories

  Matheson, Richard, 1926-2013

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  What if every time you pushed a button you received $50,000...but someone you didn’t know died? Would you still push the button? How many times? The author of this anthology inspired Twilight Zone episodes or the movie I am Legend so creepy &…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Defy the Dark

  Mitchell, Saundra • Pike, Aprilynne • Ryan, Carrie • Hawkins, Rachel • Rees Brennan, Sarah • Gratton, Tessa • Johnson, Christine • Kemp, Valerie • Lo, Malinda

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  The seventeen original stories in Defy the Dark, an eerie, mind-bending YA anthology, could only take place in darkness. Open the pages and discover: A creepy guy who stares too long. The secrets of the core of the earth. Dreams of other people’s…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Diverse Energies

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  In this collection of original and rediscovered stories of tragedy and hope, the stars are a diverse group of students, street kids, good girls, kidnappers, and child laborers pitted against their environments, their governments, differing…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Begin, End, Begin

  a #LoveOzYA Anthology

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  The YA event of the year. Bestsellers. Award-winners. Superstars. This anthology has them all. With brilliantly entertaining short stories from beloved young adult authors Amie Kaufman, Melissa Keil, Will Kostakis, Ellie Marney, Jaclyn Moriarty,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Unbroken

  13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens

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  Another great choice if you are looking for diverse voices. This anthology explores disability in fictional tales told from the viewpoint of disabled characters, written by disabled creators. With stories in various genres about first loves,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Black Enough

  Stories of Being Young & Black in America

  Zoboi, Ibi • Johnson, Varian • Magoon, Kekla • Onyebuchi, Tochi • Reynolds, Jason • Stone, Nic • Tamani, Liara • Watson, Renée • Williams-Garcia, Rita • Baptiste, Tracey • Booth, Coe • Clayton, Dhonielle • Colbert, Brandy • Coles, Jay • Giles, Lamar • Ireland, Justina • Henderson, Leah

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  Black Enough is a star-studded anthology edited by National Book Award finalist Ibi Zoboi that will delve into the closeted thoughts, hidden experiences, and daily struggles of black teens across the country. From a spectrum of backgrounds—urban and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• His Hideous Heart

  Thirteen of Edgar Allan Poe's Most Unsettling Tales Reimagined

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  If you like the creepy vibe of Edgar Allan Poe but think the language would be a bit tough to get through, Thirteen of YA’s most celebrated names reimagine Edgar Allan Poe’s most surprising, unsettling, and popular tales for a new generation.

• The Stories of Ray Bradbury

  Bradbury, Ray, 1920-2012

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  Ray Bradbury has some classic short stories so check out this great collection of all of his stories. Particularly "All Summer in a day" or "The Veldt"