short stories

"Where do authors get their ideas? And how do they turn those ideas into stories? This anthology looks at the process of taking real-life experiences and turning them into works of engaging fiction. The collection features award-winning and bestselling middle-grade authors who provide both original fictional short stories as well as the nonfiction accounts that inspired them. The contributing authors include Julia Alvarez, Karen Cushman, Margarita Engle, Dee Garretson, Nathan Hale, Matthew Kirby, Claire Legrand, Grace Lin, Kate Messner, Linda Sue Park, Adam Rex, Gary Schmidt, Alan Sitomer, Caroline Starr Rose, Heidi Stemple, Rita Williams-Garcia, Tracy Edward Wymer, Lisa Yee, and Jane Yolen"--Provided by publisher.

Nineteen contributors from India and Australia?including Printz Award?winning author Margo Lanagan and New York Times bestsellers Justine Larbalestier and Samhita Arnir?team up to create a groundbreaking collection of feminist stories about the connections we all share.

"These ten stories ring with voices belonging to--among others--English Arctic explorers in one of history's most nightmarish expeditions, a young contemporary American negotiating the shockingly underreported hazards of our crude-oil trains, eighteenth-century French balloonists inventing manned flight, and two mid-nineteenth-century housewives trying to forge a connection despite their isolation on the frontier of settlement. In each case the personal is the political as these characters face everything from the emotional pitfalls of everyday life to historic catastrophes on a global scale"--.

A collection of seven Sherlock Holmes adventures.

"12 adventure-filled tales ... follow Thomas the Take Engine and his railway friends all around the Island of Sodor."--Back cover.

A collection of 83 short stories featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes.

"Come with Tashi and his friend Jack on four...adventures of mystery and magic. There's a Magnificent Magician with a greedy plan, a haunted house about to go up in flames, ruthless ruffians after a rare orchid, and a quest for the bravest person in the land to face the fire-breathing Red Whiskered Dragon"--Back cover.

"A collection of intertwined stories built around the idea of keys, literal and metaphorical"--Provided by publisher.

A collection of ten short stories by Claire Vaye Watkins that take place in Nevada.

"In her debut collection of short fiction, Due takes us to Gracetown, a small Florida town that has both literal and figurative ghost; into future scenarios that seem all too real; and provides empathetic portraits of those whose lives are touched by Otherness"--Provided by publisher.