Quick Reads-YA Short Stories

Short Stories found in the Young Adult Book Collection. Not a definitive or exhaustive list. YA novels are made up of books for a wide age range (12-18 years old) and includes a variety of different topics and interests. Not all titles will be appropriate for all readers* Last Updated 12/12/2023
 

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1. The end and other beginnings: stories from the future

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Author:
Roth, Veronica
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Cary Regional - Young Adult
YA ROTH
Eva H. Perry Regional - Young Adult
YA ROTH
Green Road Community - Young Adult
YA ROTH
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A collection of six short stories imagines future lands with new technologies and beings, where in spite of advanced capabilities, people still must confront deeply human problems.

2. Magic has no borders

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Athens Drive Community - Young Adult
YA MAGIC
Cary Regional - Young Adult
YA MAGIC
East Regional - Young Adult
YA MAGIC
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"From chudails and peris to jinn and goddesses, this lush collection of South Asian folklore, legends, and epics reimagines stories of old for a modern audience. This fantasy and science fiction teen anthology edited by Samira Ahmed and Sona Charaipotra contains a wide range of stories from fourteen bestselling, award-winning, and emerging writers from the South Asian diaspora that will surprise, delight, and move you. So read on, for after all, magic...

3. Out there: into the queer new yonder

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Athens Drive Community - Young Adult
YA OUTTHERE
Cary Regional - Young Adult
YA OUTTHERE
East Regional - Young Adult
YA OUTTHERE
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"Explore new and familiar worlds where the human consciousness can be uploaded into a body on Mars...an alien helps a girl decide if she should tell her best friend how she feels...two teens get stuck in a time loop at a space station...people are forced to travel to the past or the future to escape the dying planet...only a nonbinary person can translate the binary code of a machine that predicts the future...everyone in the world vanishes except...

4. Stars above: a Lunar Chronicles collection

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Author:
Meyer, Marissa
Series:
Lunar chronicles
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8 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Morrisville Community - Young Adult
YA MEYER
Wake Forest Community - Young Adult
YA MEYER
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A collection of six stories from the universe of the Lunar Chronicles answer such questions as: How did Cinder first arrive in New Beijing? How did the brooding soldier Wolf transform from young man to killer? When did Princess Winter and the palace guard Jacin realize their destinies?

5. Tasting light: ten science fiction stories to rewire your perceptions

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Eva H. Perry Regional - Young Adult has 2
YA TASTING
Holly Springs Community - Young Adult
YA TASTING
North Regional - Young Adult has 2
YA TASTING
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"In a society where the modification industry has transformed how humans look, sound, and interact, a nonbinary teen braves the 'reinvention' room to accept a gift from the dead. In an accidental city in space, a young apprentice holds neighborhoods together with braided carbon filaments, until distraction and inspiration arrive in the wake of a visitor. Entitlement-fueled drug use alters the landscape of white privilege, a robot remembers the earth,...