Children’s / Teenage fiction: Short stories
HarperCollins Three Sides of a Heart Stories about Love Triangles
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Pinkalicious 5Minute Pinkalicious Stories
Book Synopsis#1 New York Times bestselling author Victoria Kann brings young readers a collection of 12 Pinkalicious stories designed for sharing at bedtime or storytime.Join Pinkalicious in this collection of 12 fun-filled stories as she meets a mini-mermaid, has fun with fashion, and learns to fly a kite.
£15.09
HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Witchs Vacuum Cleaner and Other Stories
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£17.09
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Ancestor Approved Intertribal Stories for Kids
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This uplifting assembly affirms the vitality of Indigenous life today and offers accessible situations and characters to all young readers." — Shelf Awareness "The entries tell of the personal struggles, family joy, belief systems, and stunning regalia of various nations, including the Cree, Ojibwe, Choctaw, Cherokee, Navajo, Abenaki, and Haudenosaunee, through the eyes of the young protagonists. Enrollment issues, Indian wannabes, and veterans’ histories are just a few of the serious themes addressed in these entertaining stories written by familiar and lesser-known writers alike. Senses of goodwill and humor pervade the book as well as the spirit of community, intersection, resilience, and a desire to remember the past... A joyful invitation to celebrate the circle of ancestors together." — Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "With exceptionally strong writing throughout, and appended with glossary, author notes, and acknowledgements, this makes an appealing choice for those just learning about contemporary Indigenous life as well as readers well versed with the powwow circuit." — Booklist (starred review) "A wonderful introduction to the included authors’ work and a persuasive encouragement to seek out more Indigenous stories." — Publishers Weekly (starred review) "A thoughtful and sometimes funny celebration of a celebration, and whether kids are veteran powwow-goers or new to the experience, they’ll long for the convivial warmth of the festivities." — Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books "This anthology offers readers a variety of images of Native children while also introducing them to vocabulary from several different Indigenous languages, compiled in an appended glossary. According to Rogers’s poem: “A powwow is / friends and family / …a way to remember those / who’ve passed on / …a place for belly-laughing / …healing / and soul-soothing,” and this volume reflects all of those elements and more." — Horn Book Magazine
£12.99
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Ancestor Approved
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Super Puzzletastic Mysteries Short Stories for
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Engaging anthology of snappily paced capers entailing codes, ciphers, and math and science puzzles.” — Publishers Weekly "An engaging addition to a school library collection, especially one where middle grade mysteries, puzzles, and mind teasers are in high demand." — School Library Journal
£12.99
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Super Puzzletastic Mysteries
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Engaging anthology of snappily paced capers entailing codes, ciphers, and math and science puzzles.” — Publishers Weekly "An engaging addition to a school library collection, especially one where middle grade mysteries, puzzles, and mind teasers are in high demand." — School Library Journal
£9.55
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Mary Engelbreits Nursery and Fairy Tales
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£13.41
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Moccasin Thunder
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£17.09
Penguin Random House Children's UK Just So Stories
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£9.59
Penguin Random House Children's UK Tales from Shakespeare Puffin Classics
Book SynopsisDiscover Shakespeare's best-loved plays These tales are the perfect introduction to Shakespeare's greatest plays. Charles and Mary Lamb vividly bring to life the power of Hamlet and Othello, the fun of As You Like It and the drama of Pericles. They never lose the feel of his beautiful language and humanity and convey all of his wit and wisdom. These tales are classic literature in their own right.
£10.11
Penguin Random House Children's UK Myths of the Norsemen
Book SynopsisPuffin Classics bring the very best children''s stories to a new generation. Roger Lancelyn Green''s time-honoured collection of Norse myths and legends is introduced by bestselling author Michelle Paver, creator of the Chronicles of Ancient Darkness collection and Gods and Warriors, her epic Greek Bronze Age series for Puffin. The great Norse sagas are full of magic and heroic deeds. Odin''s wanderings, Thor''s hammer, the death of Bakkur, the vision of Ragnarok - tales which have been told since time immemorial - are given a fresh life in this version, written as one continuous exciting adventure story. Puffin Classics contain additional endnotes for children including an author profile, a guide to who''s who, activities and more.
£8.99
Penguin Random House India Friendships Stories
Book SynopsisFriendships is a subtle and moving collection of stories about surprising moments of understanding from unlikely sources. In “The Snake,” a girl faces her fears with help from a strange ally; in “Father by Mail,” a teenager writes down all the things he could never say to the parent who has left him behind; and in “Bruno,” a boy discovers a way to deal with a bully. These perceptive and contemporary stories, by one of Canada's best-loved and award-winning authors for young readers, show struggling boys and girls making a connection with someone who can bring them to a kind of balance.
£10.79
Penguin Random House India KindnessMatters
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£13.29
Penguin Random House India Nisha Small
Book SynopsisCan she beat the older moustached detectives to catch the thief?
£8.32
Clarion Books Twelve Impossible Things Before Breakfast
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£6.99
St Martin's Press The Big Fat Cow That Goes Kapow
Book SynopsisNew York Times-bestselling author Andy Griffiths follows up his slimy, rhymey, easy-to-read hit, The Cat on the Mat is Flat, with ten more hilarious short, rhyming stories for elementary school readers.Look inside!This book has a mouse with a house,and a mole in a hole,and a squirmy worm,and a spiky bike.And, of course,it has a big fat cow that goes5, 4, 3, 2, 1 . . . KAPOW!
£9.60
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Very Short Scary Tales to Read Together
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£8.54
Little, Brown & Company Boy Of Mine
Book SynopsisAn enchanting bedtime lullaby for every parent's little boy
£9.89
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company Girls Rule 5Minute Stories
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£13.06
Square Fish Jack on the Tracks Four Seasons of Fifth Grade
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£9.49
Random House USA Inc Horton and the Kwuggerbug and More Lost Stories
Book SynopsisA follow-up to The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories by Dr. Seuss! A new Dr. Seuss book! This follow-up to The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories features familiar Seussian faces and places—including Horton the Elephant, Marco, Mulberry Street, and a Grinch—as well as an introduction by renowned Seuss scholar Charles D. Cohen. Seuss fans will learn more about Horton’s integrity, Marco’s amazing imagination, a narrowly avoided disaster on Mullbery Street, and a devious Grinch. With a color palette enhanced beyond that of the magazines in which the stories originally appeared, this new volume of “lost” tales is a perfect gift for young readers and a must-have for Seuss collectors of all ages!
£15.29
Clarion Books Facts of Life
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£9.49
Random House USA Inc The DarkThirty
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£8.99
Random House USA Inc SchoolTripped
Book SynopsisWatch out, Big City! Babymouse is on a field trip without a chaperone in the third book in the Babymousetastic, highly illustrated Babymouse: Tales from the Locker series--now in paperback!Babymouse's art class is headed to a museum in the Big City. And now that they're middle schoolers, she and her friends will be totally unsupervised! She can't wait to check out all the world-famous art...that is, until she overhears Felicia Furrypaws planning to ditch the museum and hit the town instead. Babymouse decides to test her freedom with an urban adventure of her own. Will she make it back to the museum before the bus leaves? Or will life in the Big City trip her up big-time?Highly illustrated with black-and-white art throughout and a dozen or so comic pages, this is the perfect showcase for the Holms' signature humor. Middle school may never be the same!
£7.59
Random House Children's Books More Stories Huey Tells Stepping Stone Chapter Books
Book SynopsisIf you loved The Stories Julian Tells, wait until you meet Julian's younger brother, Huey! Huey is good at solving problems. Sometimes his older brother, Julian, tries to push him around, but Huey knows how to handle him. When Huey gets scared about their father's smoking, the boys work together to help him quit. But some problems are bigger than Huey or Julian. After a hunt for gold leaves Huey trapped at the bottom of a crumbling mine, he'll need more than cleverness and bravery—and more than Julian—to save him.
£8.54
Greenwillow Books The Jacket I Wear in the Snow
Book SynopsisRhyme follows rhyme as layer after layer of winter clothing (bunchy and hot, wrinkled a lot, stiff in the knee, and too big for me!) is first put on and then taken off to the relief of the child bundled inside. Clever rebuses and jaunty illustrations make The Jacket I Wear in the Snow especially fun for prereaders and new readers.
£8.54
HarperCollins Publishers Inc truckboardbook
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Truck
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£999.99
Quarto Publishing PLC A World Full of Dickens Stories
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£18.67
Quarto Publishing PLC A Treasury of Tales for Four Year Olds
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£17.09
Quarto Publishing PLC A World Full of Winter Stories
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£18.65
Lutterworth Press Whoever You Are Overell Books
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£16.15
Kingfisher Around the World in 80 Tales
Book SynopsisTake a trip around the world and discover 5-minute bedtime stories from 80 different countries. Around the World in 80 Tales is written by renowned author and playwright Saviour Pirotta and beautifully illustrated by the brilliant Richard Johnson. Readers can journey across six continents, with entertaining folktales from dozens of countries, including the U.S., Canada, Hawaii, Mexico, Peru, Chile, Russia, Germany, Australia, Egypt, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, and Japan.This delightful collection is an excellent introduction to countries and cultures, enriching readers'' appreciation of diversity around the world. Stories include a dragon princess in China, a spell-casting Sioux grandmother, a helpful friend from Spain, and a rainbow snake from Venezuela; children will meet wonderful characters as they travel story-by-story around the globe. A perfect book for schools and libraries, and also for parents and children to read together at bedtime.
£17.09
Candlewick Press,U.S. What Do Fish Have to Do with Anything And Other
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£8.54
Candlewick Press,U.S. First Crossing Stories About Teen Immigrants
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£8.54
Candlewick Press,U.S. Free Stories about Human Rights
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£9.49
Candlewick Press,U.S. When I Was Your Age Original Stories about
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£14.24
Candlewick Press,U.S. We Are All His Creatures Tales of P T Barnum the
Book SynopsisIn a series of interwoven fictionalized stories, Deborah Noyes gives voice to the marginalized women in P. T. Barnum’s family — and the talented entertainers he built his entertainment empire on.Much has been written about P. T. Barnum — legendary showman, entrepreneur, marketing genius, and one of the most famous nineteenth-century personalities. For those who lived in Barnum’s shadow, however, life was complex. P. T. Barnum’s two families — his family at home, including his two wives and his daughters, and his family at work, including Little People, a giantess, an opera singer, and many sideshow entertainers — suffered greatly from his cruelty and exploitation. Yet, at the same time, some of his performers, such as General Tom Thumb (Charles Stratton), became wealthy celebrities who were admired and feted by presidents and royalty. In this collection of interlinked stories illustrated with archival photographs, Deborah Noyes d
£16.19
Candlewick Press,U.S. Half a Creature from the Sea A Life in Stories
Book SynopsisMaster storyteller David Almond presents a beautiful collection of short fiction, interwoven with pieces that illuminate the inspiration behind the stories.May Malone is said to have a monster in her house, but what Norman finds there may just be the angel he needs. Joe Quinn’s house is noisy with poltergeists, or could it be Davie’s raging causing the disturbance? Fragile Annie learns the truth about herself in a photograph taken by a traveling man near the sea. Set in the northern English Tyneside country of the author’s childhood, these eight short stories by the incomparable David Almond evoke gritty realities and ineffable longings, experiences both ordinary and magical. In autobiographical preludes to each story, the writer shows how all things can be turned into tales, reflecting on a time of wonder, tenderness, and joy.
£999.99
Candlewick Press,U.S. The Most Important Thing
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£999.99
Candlewick Press,U.S. Open MIC Riffs on Life Between Cultures in Ten
Book Synopsis“Will leave readers thinking about the ways that humor can be a survival tool in a world that tends to put people in boxes.” — Publishers WeeklyListen in as ten YA authors—some familiar, some new—use their own brands of humor to share stories about growing up between cultures. Edited by acclaimed author and speaker Mitali Perkins, this collection of fiction and nonfiction uses a mix of styles as diverse as their authors, from laugh-out-loud funny to wry, ironic, or poignant, in prose, poetry, and comic form.With stories by:Cherry ChevaVarian JohnsonG. NeriNaomi Shihab NyeMitali PerkinsOlugbemisola Rhuday-PerkovichDebbie RigaudFrancisco X. StorkGene Luen YangDavid Yoo
£8.54
Starscape Books Beware the Ninja Weenies
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£999.99
Holiday House Inc Out to Get You 13 Tales of Weirdness and Woe
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£12.34
Random House Australia Stories for 9 Year Olds
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£8.99
Tundra Books Promise Song NY City Librarys 1998 Books for the
Book SynopsisThe year is 1900 and orphaned 14-year-old Rosetta and her beloved younger sister Flora sail from England as “home girls.” They are sent to Canada so that they can have a chance at family life. Their dreams are shattered when Flora is adopted, but Rosetta is deemed to be too old. She is to become a farm worker, far from Flora’s new home.Rosetta’s only dream is to find her sister. But slowly and against her will, she is drawn into the lives of the strange couple with whom she has been placed. It is soon clear to her that their home is full of fear and sorrow.As her relationship develops with the farmer’s wife, Rosetta learns that true sisterhood can take many forms. The support the two young women offer one another makes each one stronger until they find a way to follow their dreams.
£9.63
Tundra Books Secrets Stories Selected by Marthe Jocelyn
Book SynopsisIn all their permutations, these unforgettable stories explore one of the irresistible facets of human nature, the fact that everyone has a secret. Marthe Jocelyn has selected twelve stories by several of the best authors in North America to explore the nature and the power of secrets. Sometimes secrets can be downright funny - how would you like to be the front person for your fake, clairvoyant mother? Secrets can also be scary - if you are pretending that your father is dead so you don’t have to introduce him to your teacher. And sometimes secrets can break your heart, and heal it - when they have to do with the ties that bind generations together.Contributors include Susan Adach, Anne Carter, Gillian Chan, Nancy Hartry, Marthe Jocelyn, Julie Johnston, Dayal Kaur Khalsa, Loris Lesynski, Anne Gray Sarndal, Martha Slaughter, Teresa Toten, and Elizabeth Winthrop.
£8.50
Tundra Books First Times Stories Selected by Marthe Jocelyn
Book Synopsis“First times” can be life-changing experiences. Marthe Jocelyn has selected fourteen unforgettable stories, written by several of the best authors in North America, which explore human nature and take the reader on a transforming journey. From innocent firsts, such as first blue jeans, first boyfriend, first job, first step into adulthood, to the more complex first disillusionment, first inappropriate love, first family breakup, first breach of trust, to the shocking first dead body and first night alone, the stories in First Times — in all their diversity — embrace and captivate with their power. Contributors include Martha Slaughter, Curtis Parkinson, Susan Juby, Alan Cumyn, Susan Adach, Ted Staunton, Richard Scrimger, Gillian Chan, Bill Habeeb, Nancy Hartry, Bill Richardson, Tim Wynne-Jones, Marthe Jocelyn, and Sarah Ellis.
£9.45
