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A collection of young adult anthologies/short stories of contemporary
fiction:
Up All Night: A Short Story Collection
No Such Thing as the Real World: Stories About Growing Up and Getting
a Life Geektastic, Stories from the Nerd Herd
Up All Night: A Short Story Collection
by Laura Geringer (Editor), Peter Abrahams, Libba Bray, David Levithan,
Patricia McCormick, Sarah Weeks, Gene Luen Yang
A brush with the supernatural? A rock concert? A reunion? A poolside
revelation? The need to know what's up? The confessions of a friend?
The dream of escape? A sick pet? An English assignment? The rear-window
view of a murder next door? The search for the mother you never met?
What keeps you up all night?
Invited by editor Laura Geringer to write about "a single night that
matters"-about a character kept up all night and transformed by his or
her vigil-six authors contribute six stunning stories. Varied in form
and content, these entries share a confident, assured pace; the authors
know how to build characters and settings, and they do not cut corners.
Abrahams, for example, begins "Phase 2" as a girl describes her family's
preparations for her father's homecoming from the Iraq war.
At the expected hour, however, it is not the father who arrives but
a lieutenant and a chaplain; the girl's mother turns white, "the color
of a corpse in the movies." This dramatic but controlled setup leads to
an emotionally nuanced encounter between the grieving mother and
a medium, with the narrator and her younger brother crossing the most
unexpected of barriers. The other stories, including Bray's '70s-era
"Not Just for Breakfast Anymore," about a girl coming to terms with her
father's recently announced gay identity; Patricia McCormick's "Orange
Alert," in which a 15-year-old short-circuits an abusive relationship;
and Gene Luen Yang's graphic-novel format "The Motherless One,"
featuring a chimp searching for "some small sign that... someone wanted
me to exist," are equally complex and surprising.
No Such Thing as the Real World: Stories About Growing Up and Getting
a Life by An Na, M.T. Anderson, K.L. Going, Beth Kephart, Chris Lynch,
Jacqueline Woodson
Graduation from high school?
A senior thesis?
A betrayal by someone you love?
A loss of innocence?
The death of a parent?
Losing the family you always wished you had?
Facing a harsh reality?
What's the line that separates childhood from the "real world"?
And what happens when it's nothing you imagined it would be?
Geektastic, Stories from the Nerd Herd
Acclaimed authors Holly Black and Cecil Castellucci have united in
geekdom to edit short stories from some of the best selling and most
promising geeks in young adult literature: M.T. Anderson, Libba Bray,
Cassandra Clare, John Green, Tracy Lynn, Cynthia and Greg Leitich Smith,
David Levithan, Kelly Link, Barry Lyga, Wendy Mass, Garth Nix, Scott
Westerfield, Lisa Yee, and Sara Zarr.
With illustrated interstitials from comic book artists Hope Larson and
Bryan Lee O'Malley, Geektastic covers all things geeky, from Klingons
and Jedi Knights to fan fiction, theater geeks, and cosplayers. Whether
you're a former, current, or future geek, or if you just want to get in
touch with your inner geek, Geektastic will help you get your geek on!
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