short stories

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Rooftop secrets and other stories of anti-Semitism

1986
A collection of eight short stories, with background information and commentary, each dealing with a young Jew's confrontation with anti-Semitism in different periods of Jewish history.

More mystery cats

feline felonies
1993
Fourteen mystery stories that include cats in the plots.

The Donkey Lady fights la Llorona and other stories

Young Margarito doesn't believe his Grandpa Ventura's ghost stories, until one day while walking home from his grandfather's he sees a woman in white, La Llorona, who calls to him. Scared, Margarito hides behind a tree, until from the water comes the Donkey Lady, who proceeds to fight La Llorona over who gets to claim Margarito as her next victim.

Other voices, other vistas

short stories from Africa, China, India, Japan, and Latin America
1992

Told under the blue umbrella

1933
A collection of realistic stories for children from two to eight years of age.

Growing up female

stories by women writers from the American mosaic
1993
Collection of twenty-three short pieces of fiction and autobiographical narratives, focusing on the passage from girlhood to womanhood in late twentieth-century America.

North of the Rio Grande

the Mexican- American experience in short fiction
1992
Includes stories by twenty-seven Anglo and Chicano authors including Stephen Crane, Mario Suarez, Willa Cather, Carlos Flores and Carolyn Osborn.

Great American short stories

1985
A selection of twenty-six short stories by William Faulkner, Herman Melville, Edith Wharton, John Steinbeck, Eudora Welty, and others.

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