Re: short stories for middle school

["T. K. Cassidy" <tkc@KUENTOS.GUAM.NET>]

Why don't publishers listen to us when we tell them we need these??
>
>> Are there any great/interesting short stories you have come across that are
>> good for middle schoolers?  Or any great short story collections?
>
>Amy,
>   I really like the Creative Classics series published by Creative
>Education. Each book is one short story from classic literature (_The
>Lady or The Tiger_  is one example).
>   These have several advantages:
>        1. some students, who have never finished a "whole book", find their
>first success with one of these;
>        2. the print is large enough to not be intimidating but not so large as
>to be "babyish" for middle schoolers (or high school);
>        3. the stories themselves are quality literature from well-known
>authors;
>        4. for schools using Accelerated Reader, almost all of the titles in
>this series have AR tests available.
>
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