[LM_NET] Short stories of different genres

[Carol Van Brocklin <carolannvan@MOTIMAIL.COM>]

Good afternoon:
    I have been thinking about this for a while but before 
I do much more research, I thought I would throw it out to 
the LM-Netters.
    This year for the Battle of the Books, we are adding 
one person per team who will be a "specialist". I had 
heard about a similar type program in Europe and decided 
that I would give it a shot here. Basically what it is is 
one person on each team that rather than reading all of 
the books, does some reading of short stories from 
different genres and answers questions on that instead. 
These people will either be reading the stories the day of 
the competition or perhaps a few days before but they have 
been put into this category because they are ESL readers 
who are struggling to keep up with their classmates, but 
really want to be a part of the competition. I am also 
encouraging them to read at least some of the books that 
the others are reading so that they will be able to really 
help out their team.
     My problem now is trying to find short stories 
(preferably 3-5 pages) across several different genres. My 
books are made up for mysteries, science fiction, animal 
books, biographies, korean, poetry, and something fun. I 
would love to come up with stories also that fit into each 
of these categories. So far the only one I have thought of 
is "All summer in a Day" for my Sci-Fi selection.

Thanks in advance for any help with this.

Carol Van Brocklin
Librarian
Faith Academy-Mindanao
Davao City, Philippines
carolannvan@motimail.com

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