Here are sixteen representative stories for the eighties, written especially for this collection by today's best-known writers for teenagers. Their impressions radiate through an emotional prism of hope and hate, love and death, despair and joy, in a diverse yet strikingly unified collection.
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Here are sixteen representative stories for the eighties, written especially for this collection by today's best-known writers for teenagers. Their impressions radiate through an emotional prism of hope and hate, love and death, despair and joy, in a diverse yet strikingly unified collection.
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54 of 57 people found the following review helpful:
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Great book for secondary Engligh teachers!,
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This review is from: Sixteen: Short Stories by Outstanding Writers for Young Adults (Mass Market Paperback)
As a middle school English teacher, I am always interested in finding short stories that can be used as a part of curriculum while being interesting to teenagers. Sixteen is designed around "themes" which fits in nicely with today's teaching methods. Not only are they interesting and thought-provoking, the stories also make it easy to teach literary elements/techniques
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This review is from: Sixteen: Short Stories by Outstanding Writers for Young Adults (Mass Market Paperback)
Truly awful stories in this collection. I use a couple of them, "May I Have Your Autograph?" (a rock star who dresses like a cat! Kids will LOVE that!) and "Midnight Snack" (unicorns in the subway! Kids will LOVE that!), with my middle school students as examples of writing that just plain doesn't work. They're good for a laugh, at least.
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The Epitome of Depressing Eighties "Writing",
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This review is from: Sixteen: Short Stories by Outstanding Writers for Young Adults (Mass Market Paperback)
This is going to be short, but sweet. This book was by far one of the most bothersome collections of short stories I have had the misfortune to come across. With authors such as Robert Lipsyte, Diane Duane, and Richard Peck, this is hardly what I would call a "selection of great work from great writers." For that matter, It isn't a collection of anything but chronologically trapped short stories featuring such characters as "Craig the Cat" the rock-star who dressed like a cat and held a bottle of spilling milk while posing atop a garbage can for magazine shoots. The biggest problem with this book is that the stories are oriented for pre-teens but to find any value or worthwhile messages in the book, you would have to be at least sixteen. Oh the sweet irony. As a young teenager, I feel that this book was a complete was of time. G'day.
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When Mr. Augustus Francher's heart burst, I told Crow we were going to the service at Bascind's Funeral Home because, afterward, at Mrs. Francher's house, there would be food. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Aunt Dessie, New York, Craig the Cat, Mary Ann, American Library Association, Uncle Emer, Uncle Mark, Fourth of July, Future Tense, Jim Baggs, Midnight Snack, Uncle Acraud, Bette Greene, Kevin Major, Marjorie Sharmat, Norma Fox Mazer, Ouida Sebestyen, Philip Hall, Rosa Guy, The Chocolate War, Mike Chung, Monk Klutter, Uncle Gonfil, World War, David James Alpern New!
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When Mr. Augustus Francher's heart burst, I told Crow we were going to the service at Bascind's Funeral Home because, afterward, at Mrs. Francher's house, there would be food. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
going stag, have your autograph Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Aunt Dessie, New York, Craig the Cat, Mary Ann, American Library Association, Uncle Emer, Uncle Mark, Fourth of July, Future Tense, Jim Baggs, Midnight Snack, Uncle Acraud, Bette Greene, Kevin Major, Marjorie Sharmat, Norma Fox Mazer, Ouida Sebestyen, Philip Hall, Rosa Guy, The Chocolate War, Mike Chung, Monk Klutter, Uncle Gonfil, World War, David James Alpern New!
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- Solid Gold Kid, The by Norma Mazer on page 14, and page 92
- The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier in Front Matter, and page 163
- Best Books for Young Adults by Betty Carter on page 46, and page 153
- Beauty Queen by Susan Beth Pfeffer on page 41
- Summer Rules by Robert Lipsyte on page 70
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