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Children's stories, American

Tales of Terror

Edgar Allan Poe

With these stories, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Black Cat, The Cask of Amontillado, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Masque of the Red Death, The Facts in the Case of M.

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Every Living Thing

Cynthia Rylant

Twelve stories in which animals change people's lives for the better.

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Edgar Allan Poe's Tales of Mystery and Madness

Edgar Allan Poe

Presents color-illustrated renditions of four of Edgar Allan Poe's horror tales, including "The Black Cat," "The Masque of the Red Death," "Hop-Frog," and "The Fall of the House of Usher.".

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Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories

Washington Irving

Contains thirteen short stories by Washington Irving, including the title work about schoolmaster Ichabod Crane and his encounter with a headless horseman.

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Tales of Mark Twain

Peg Hall

A collection of retold classic stories by Mark Twain.

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145th Street

Walter Dean Myers

Ten stories portray life on a block in Harlem.

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Being Dead

Vivian Vande Velde

Seven supernatural stories, all having something to do with death.

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Dogsong

Gary Paulsen

A fourteen-year-old Eskimo boy who feels assailed by the modernity of his life takes a 1400-mile journey by dog sled across ice, tundra, and mountains seeking his own "song" of himself.

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Past Perfect, Present Tense

Richard Peck

A collection of short stories, including two previously unpublished ones, that deal with the way things could be.

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Working Days

Fifteen stories relate the experiences of teenagers working for many different reasons in a variety of jobs.

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