Stories for Younger Readers

Young Adult Stories

• Apollo (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
• The Bass, the River & Sheila Mant (W. D. Wetherell)
• A Brief Moment in the Life of Angus Bethune (Chris Crutcher)
• Cooking Time (Anita Roy)
• Customs (Julia Alvarez)
• Daughter of Invention (Julia Alvarez)
• Dead End (Rudolf Anaya)
• Girls at Play (Celeste Ng)
• Going Fishing (Norma Fox Mazer)
• Hamadi (Naomi Shihab Nye)
• I Go Along (Richard Peck)
• Initiation (Sylvia Plath)
• Jeremiah’s Song (Walter Dean Myers)
• The Man in the Well (Ira Sher)
• The Moustache (Robert Cormier)
• Stay True Hotel (Naomi Shihab Nye)
• My Sweet Sixteenth (Brenda Wilkinson)
• On The Bridge (Todd Strasser)
• Rules of the Game (Amy Tan)
• Safety of Numbers (Lucy Tan)
• Supper (Lesléa Newman)
• Two Kinds (Amy Tan)
• Wolf (Francesca Lia Block)

Grade 7-8 Stories

• Abuela Invents the Zero (Judith Ortiz Cofer)
• All the Years of Her Life (Morley Callaghan)
• Amigo Brothers (Piri Thomas)
• Birthday Box (Jane Yolen)
• Blue (Francesca Lia Block)
• The Blue Bead (Norah Burke)
• Blues Ain’t No Mockin Bird (Toni Cade Bambara)
• Born Worker (Gary Soto)
• The Broken Chain (Gary Soto)
• The Busker (Paul Jennings)
• Checkouts (Cynthia Rylant)
• Clean Sweep (Joan Bauer)
• Click-Clack the Rattlebag (Neil Gaiman)
• A Crush (Cynthia Rylant)
• The Elevator (William Sleator)
• The Fifty-first Dragon (Heywood Broun)
• Fox Hunt (Lensey Namioka)
• The Girl Who Can (Ama Ata Aidoo)
• Going Steady (Adam Bagdasarian)
• Gorilla, My Love (Toni Cade Bambara)
• The Great Rat Hunt (Laurence Yep)
• An Hour With Abuelo (Judith Ortiz Cofer)
• The Jade Bracelet (Mary Frances Chong)
• A Job for Valentin (Judith Ortiz Cofer)
• The Lesson (Toni Cade Bambara)
• Liberty (Juila Alvarez)
• The Medicine Bag (Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve)
• Melvin in the Sixth Grade (Dana Johnson)
• Monkeyman (Walter Dean Myers)
• Muffin (Susan Cooper)
• My Lucy Friend Who Smells Like Corn (Sandra Cisneros)
• Names/Nombres (Julia Alvarez)
• One Friday Morning (Langston Hughes)
• The People Could Fly (Hamilton)
• Popularity (Adam Bagdasarian)
• Priscilla and the Wimps (Richard Peck)
• Real Food (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
• Shadows (Richard Peck)
• The Stolen Party (Liliana Heker)
• Stop the Sun (Gary Paulsen)
• The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse (William Saroyan)
• Suzy and Leah (Jane Yolen)
• Thank You, M’am (Langston Hughes)
• Three Century Woman (Richard Peck)
• The Treasure of Lemon Brown (Walter Dean Myers)
• User Friendly (Ernesto T. Bethancourt)
• The War of the Wall (Toni Cade Bambara)
• What Means Switch (Gish Jen)
• The White Umbrella (Gish Jen)
• Zebra (Chaim Potok)

Grade 5-6 Stories

• The All-American Slurp (Lensey Namioka)
• Big Brother / Bade Bhai Sahab (Premchand)
• Bigfoot Cinderrrrrella (Tony Johnston)
• The Blue Umbrella (Ruskin Bond)
• The Challenge (Gary Soto)
• Christmas Every Day (W. D. Howells)
• The Circuit (Francisco Jiménez)
• Dirk the Protector (Gary Paulsen)
• Dragon, Dragon (John Gardner)
• Drying Out (Cynthia Rylant)
• Eleven (Sandra Cisneros)
• The Emperor’s New Clothes (H. C. Andersen)
• The Fir Tree (H. C. Andersen)
• Fish Cheeks (Amy Tan)
• Flowers and Freckle Cream (Elizabeth Ellis)
• The Fun They Had (Isaac Asimov)
• Ghost of the Lagoon (Armstrong Sperry)
• The Goodness of Matt Kaizer (Avi)
• Grandad’s Gifts (Paul Jennings)
• Greyling (Jane Yolen)
• The Griffin and the Minor Canon (Frank Stockton)
• Her Hands That Held the Stars (Rebecca Birch)
• Inside Out (Francisco Jiménez)
• A Kidnapped Santa Clause (L. Frank Baum)
• The Lady or the Tiger (Frank Stockton)
• LAFFF (Lensey Namioka)
• Licked (Paul Jennings)
• Little Claus and Great Clause (H. C. Andersen)
• The Little Match Seller (H. C. Andersen)
• Lob’s Girl (Joan Aiken)
• Master Jacob (Howard Pyle)
• The Miracle of Purun Bhagat (Rudyard Kipling)
• Miss Awful (Arthur Cavanaugh)
• Mother and Daughter (Gary Soto)
• Mowgli’s Brothers (Rudyard Kipling)
• Nadia the Willful (Sue Alexander)
• The (Chinese) Nightingale (H. C. Andersen)
• The Nightingale and the Rose (Oscar Wilde)
• The Philanthropist’s Christmas (J. W. Linn)
• President Cleveland, Where Are You? (Robert Cormier)
• Raymond’s Run (Toni Cade Bambara)
• The Reluctant Dragon (Kenneth Grahame)
• Ribbons (Laurence Yep)
• The Sand-Castle (Alma Luz Villanueva)
• The Scholarship Jacket (Marta Salinas)
• The School Play (Gary Soto)
• Scout’s Honor (Avi)
• Seibei’s Gourds /The Artist (Shiga Naoya)
• The Serial Garden (Joan Aiken)
• Seventh Grade (Gary Soto)
• Smart Ice-cream (Paul Jennings)
• Sometimes a Dream Needs a Push (Walter Dean Myers)
• The Stone (Lloyd Alexander)
• Teacher Tamer (Avi)
• The Third Wish (Joan Aiken)
• Tuesday of the Other June (Norma Fox Mazer)
• The Water of Life (Howard Pyle)
• What Do Fish Have to Do with Anything? (Avi)
• Zlateh the Goat (Isaac Bashevis Singer)
• Zoo (Edward Hoch)

Grade 3-4 Stories

• The Blind Men and the Elephant (James Baldwin)
• The Champion of Quiet (Tracy Stewart)
• The Cherry Tree (Ruskin Bond)
• A Child’s Dream of a Star (Charles Dickens)
• Cinderella (Charles Perrault)
• Do What You Can (Carolyn Sherwin Bailey)
• The Enchanted Buffalo (L. Frank Baum)
• Festival of Eid / Idgah (Premchand)
• A Fish Named Dog (Christyne Morrell)
• The Giving Tree (Shel Silverstein)
• The Golden Windows (Laura E.Richards)
• The Grandfather and the Python (Ruskin Bond)
• Grandas’s Magic Hat (Marilyn Helmer)
• In the Great Walled Country (R. M. Alden)
• Kissy Face (Nancy Jean Northcutt)
• The Legend of the Christmas Rose (Selma Lagerlöf)
• Little Red Riding Hood (Charles Perrault)
• The Magic Sweet Shop (Enid Blyton)
• The Patient Cat (Laura E.Richards)
• The Pig That Went to Market (Enid Blyton)
• Pret in the House / Ghost Trouble (Ruskin Bond)
• Puss in Boots (Charles Perrault)
• Rikki-Tikki-Tavi (Rudyard Kipling)
• The Selfish Giant (Oscar Wilde)
• Shells (Cynthia Rylant)
• Sleeping Beauty in the Wood (Charles Perrault)
• Stray (Cynthia Rylant)
• The Tale of Two Oxen (Premchand)
• A Tiger in the House (Ruskin Bond)
• Two Dollars (Sharona Vedol)
• The Velveteen Rabbit (Margery Williams)
• What the Old Man Does is Always Right (H. C. Andersen)
• The Widow and the Parrot (Virgina Woolf)