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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Book cover for "19 love songs"
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Average Rating:
2 stars
Description:
A collection of fiction, nonfiction, and a story in verse celebrating love.
Book cover for "Alex Rider, secret weapon"
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Average Rating:
5 stars
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"A short story collection that expands the universe of teen spy Alex Rider from author Anthony Horowitz"--
Book cover for "All out"
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Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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Take a journey through time and genres and discover a past where queer figures live, love, and shape the world around them in this collection in which 17 young adult authors across the queer spectrum come together to write diverse historical fiction for teens.
Book cover for "The anatomy of curiosity"
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"In an unassuming corner of Brooklyn, a young woman learns to be ladylike, to love context, and to speak her mind from a very curious sort of tutor. In a faraway land convulsed by war, a young soldier hears the desert's curious hum as he disarms bombs with the person he doesn't know how to love. In a place so shriveled by drought that any drowning is a curiosity, a young writer tries again and again to tread water beneath the surface of a vast and...
Book cover for "The Bane chronicles"
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Average Rating:
4.4 stars
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A collection of eleven short stories, previously published online, that illuminate the life of the enigmatic, flashy, and flamboyant High Warlock of Brooklyn, Magnus Bane, a character in The Mortal Instruments series.
Book cover for "Battle of the bands"
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Average Rating:
5 stars
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Collects sixteen interconnected short stories about a high school's battle of the bands competition, from such authors as Shaun David Hutchinson, Brittany Cavallaro, and Preeti Chhibber.
Book cover for "A beast as dark as night"
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"Once, there was the Truth, which shone as pure as Gold. Then, came a Beast, who devoured Winter's lights.'Twas Gold versus Poison, Darkness versus Light, King versus Beast, Day verses Night"--
Book cover for "Being ace"
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Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
"Discover the infinite realms of asexual love across sci-fi, fantasy, and contemporary stories. From a wheelchair user racing to save her kidnapped girlfriend and a little mermaid who loves her sisters more than suitors, to a slayer whose virgin blood keeps attracting monsters, the stories of this anthology are anything but conventional. Whether adventuring through space, outsmarting a vengeful water spirit, or surviving haunted cemeteries, no two...
Book cover for "Black enough"
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Average Rating:
4 stars
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A collection of short stories explore what it is like to be young and black, centering on the experiences of black teenagers and emphasizing that one person's experiences, reality, and personal identity are different than someone else.
Book cover for "The Bobbiedots conclusion"
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"Outsourcing their storytelling to artificial intelligence comes with unintended results for the executives of the Fazbear Entertainment board of directors. Tony's search for the player behind the impossibly high scores at the Pizzaplex Fazcade leads him down a rabbit hole with no way out. And Abe's journey to find the first generation animatronics causing problem for his Bobbiedot home assistants lead him to believe he should have never moved into...
Book cover for "Color outside the lines"
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An anthology of short stories exploring interracial and other relationships, in which differences are front and center, but may or may not matter.
Book cover for "Come on in"
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"This ... anthology explores the joys, heartbreaks and triumphs of immigration, with stories by critically acclaimed and bestselling YA authors who are shaped by the journeys they and their families have taken from home--and to find home."--
Book cover for "Cool. Awkward. Black"
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Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
Featuring exclusively Black characters, this multi-genre story collection--drawing from contemporary, historical, fantasy, sci-fi, magical and realistic--celebrates and redefines the many facets of Blackness and geekiness, both in the real world and those imagined.
Book cover for "The demigod diaries"
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Average Rating:
3.9 stars
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Four short stories plus original art, interviews, puzzles, and games, reveal new insights into the world of Percy Jackson and the other heroes of Olympus.
Book cover for "The end and other beginnings"
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Average Rating:
4 stars
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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.
Book cover for "Every body shines"
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Average Rating:
1 stars
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"Sixteen stories celebrating fat teens with bodies of many shapes and from many communities, cultures, races, genders, and orientations in contemporary settings as well as fictional worlds"--
Book cover for "Five nights at Freddy's"
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Book cover for "Fools in love"
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"A diverse, inclusive young adult anthology featuring 15 short stories that re-imagine or subvert popular romance and rom-com tropes by some of the biggest names in YA"--
Book cover for "Generation wonder"
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"Triumph. Tragedy. The empyreal. The infernal. Even the mundane, filtered through the fantastical. Superheroes are, appropriately enough, a sort of super-genre, encompassing all other story types. This YA anthology features 13 short stories that creatively turn superhero tropes on their head, while still paying homage to the genre that has found fans for more than eight decades. And there will be no mistake--superheroes don't have to just be generic...
Book cover for "Gleanings"
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Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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A collection of stories that span the time when humans live in a world without hunger, disease, or death and Scythes act as the living instruments of population control.