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Short Stories For Teenagers: YA Fiction. Here are some short stories for young adults.

Short Stories For Teenagers: YA Fiction

There’s a mixture of modern stories and older ones. I hope you find something enjoyable here. “Cookie Cutter Superhero” by Tansy Rayner Roberts Joey has a newfound celebrity status at school. She’s reminded of her first day when everyone was interested in her left arm. This story appears in the anthology Kaleidoscope: Diverse YA Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories. “Seventh Day of the Seventh Moon” by Ken Liu Yuan tells her younger sister, Se, a bedtime story. Most of this story can be read in the Amazon preview above. “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell Rainsford is on a ship headed for the Amazon. This is one of the classic adventure stories for young adults. Read “The Most Dangerous Game” “Siege Etiquette” by Katie Cotugno The police pull up outside of the Campbell’s house during a party. You can get a sense of this story from the Amazon preview of the anthology Meet Cute, but it’s incomplete.

“Nemesis” by Kirsten Miller Mrs. Three Questions. By Leo Tolstoy Three Questions was first published in 1885 as part of Tolstoy's collection, What Men Live By, and Other Tales.

Three Questions

"There is only one time that is important—Now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we have any power. " It once occurred to a certain king, that if he always knew the right time to begin everything; if he knew who were the right people to listen to, and whom to avoid; and, above all, if he always knew what was the most important thing to do, he would never fail in anything he might undertake.

And this thought having occurred to him, he had it proclaimed throughout his kingdom that he would give a great reward to any one who would teach him what was the right time for every action, and who were the most necessary people, and how he might know what was the most important thing to do. And learned men came to the King, but they all answered his questions differently. Equally various were the answers to the second question. "Thanks! " General English - Stories. 'Well, Mr Smith, if you prefer a different type of nose, we have a large selection available.' 'I think this nose is a bit too small.' 'Small noses are very fashionable this year, Mr Smith, very fashionable.' 'Do you think it suits me?

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' asked Mr Smith. 'I think it looks very nice,' said the shop assistant. 'OK, I'll take it! ' On the airbus home, Mr Smith called his wife on his wristphone. 'Hello dear! Mrs Smith looked at her husband's new nose on the videophone monitor on the wall in the kitchen. English Listening Exercises. Learn English Through Story -Jane Eyre - beginner level. CLASSICI IN INGLESE IN FORMATO AUDIOBOOK CON TRADUZIONE INTERATTIVA.

He was an inch, perhaps two, under six feet, powerfully built, and he advanced straight at you with a slight stoop of the shoulders, head forward, and a fixed from-under stare which made you think of a charging bull.

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His voice was deep, loud, and his manner displayed a kind of dogged self-assertion which had nothing aggressive in it. It seemed a necessity, and it was directed apparently as much at himself as at anybody else. He was spotlessly neat, apparelled in immaculate white from shoes to hat, and in the various Eastern ports where he got his living as ship-chandler's water-clerk he was very popular. A water-clerk need not pass an examination in anything under the sun, but he must have Ability in the abstract and demonstrate it practically. To the white men in the waterside business and to the captains of ships he was just Jim--nothing more. Originally he came from a parsonage. He learned there a little trigonometry and how to cross top-gallant yards. 'Something's up.

Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer.

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