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Sixteen: Short Stories by Outstanding Writers for Young Adults

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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

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.

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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The book I read was name Sixteen. It had many types of stories that included emotion in the reading. My reaction was that I really like the book. It reminds me of the book call Black Boy. The stories are great to sit down and read to yourself. I did have many different dislike about the book. It does have any scary stories, and it doesn't include murder stories either. But I did like how it brought out the love stories, and how it gave information about the people's lives who the stories are about the book. For example, there was a story called Furlough that had two people name Dottie and Jack. They were in love with each other, but they had to leave one another for the war that was going on in their time. The story did bring out the characters and their emotions as well. I really think it's a great book overall. It's nice to have something you can relate to or feel the reactions it sends out to you. I would recommend it to anyone who is emotional, because if your not the one who cries, then you're not going to like this book at all. But it is a great book.

I was realy impressed by the length of these. I have wriiten better and some times even longer ones when I was in 7th grade. I have to admit I was spoiled by a collection of short stories by Jack London called fantastic tales it was great. Now this one had extremely small stories. Ithink that 1 or 2 typed computer pages single spaced would equal some of these stories. They also have no real content. One on page 22 is about a unicorns that live under the streets of New York and that had no begining middle or even no plot and no end. This is definetly not worth it. It also is not for young adults like it advertises it is for small children. Also they can't destroy the human race in the blink of an eye. These stories are not appealing but instead appalling and they are atrouches for 20+ year old writers.