Short Stories for 6th Graders Fashion Designer

It can exist a claiming to get middle schoolers interested in reading. The thought of tackling a thick novel tin exist overwhelming, particularly during distance learning. Short stories are always a great pick.

In add-on to requiring less of a time commitment, they are an easy way to betrayal your students to new authors and genres. Also, the best short stories are every scrap as engaging and meaningful as the best novels. We asked our audience on Facebook and Instagram to share some of their favorite brusk stories for middle schoolers. Here's the large listing!

"Seventh Grade" by Gary Soto
"Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes
"Everyday Use" past Alice Walker
"Lamb to the Slaughter" past Roald Dahl
"One Friday Morning" by Langston Hughes
"A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" by Gabriel García Márquez
"Charles" by Shirley Jackson
"Click Clack the Rattlebag" past Neil Gaiman
"Names/Nombres" past Julia Alvarez
"To Build a Fire" past Jack London
"The Fly" past Katherine Mansfield
"Rules of the Game" by Amy Tan
"Liars Don't Qualify" past Junius Edwards
"The Sniper" past Liam O'Flaherty
"Civil Peace" by Chinua Achebe
"The Fri Everything Inverse" by Anne Hart
"The Scholarship Jacket" past Marta Salinas
"Amigo Brothers" by Piri Thomas
"Wildflower" by Amrita Pritam
"The Years of My Birth" by Louise Erdrich
"The Veldt" by Ray Bradbury
"The Fun They Had" by Issac Asimov
"Harrison Bergeron" past Kurt Vonnegut
"A Good Man Is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor
"Eleven" by Sandra Cisneros
"Cheers, Ma'am" by Langston Hughes
"Believing in Brooklyn" by Matt de la Pena (link is to drove where story tin be found)
"Valediction" by Sherman Alexie
"Girl" by Jamaica Kincaid
"When I Lay My Burden Down" by Maya Angelou
"All Summer in a Day" by Ray Bradbury
"The Medicine Bag" past Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve
"Finish the Sunday" past Gary Paulsen
"Mother and Daughter" by Gary Soto
"The Tell-Tale Centre" by Edgar Allen Poe
"The Hitchhiker" by Lucille Fletcher
"The Landlady" by Roald Dahl
"The Smallest Dragonboy" by Anne McCaffrey
"The Scarlet Ibis" by James Hurst
"My First Free Summer" by Julia Alvarez
"The Lottery" past Shirley Jackson
"The Four Million" by O. Henry
"Fish Cheeks" by Amy Tan
"The Most Unsafe Game" past Richard Connell
"Sol Painting, Inc." by Meg Medina
"Primary Street" by Jacqueline Woodson (link is to collection where story can be plant)
"Raymond's Run" by Toni Cade Bambara
"The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas" by Ursula Le Guin
"What'south the Worst That Could Happen" by Bruce Colville
"The Monkey's Manus" by William Wymark Jacobs
"The Boo Hag" by Veronica Byrd

If y'all're searching for more short stories, cheque out these recommendations compiled by the Seattle Public Library, the ShortStoryGuide, and Barnes and Noble.

Plus, nosotros love these anthologies: A Chiliad Beginnings and Endings compiled past We Need Diverse Books'due south Ellen Oh and Elsie Chapman, and Meet Cute: Some People Are Destined to Meet by Sona Charaipotra, Dhonielle Clayton, Nicola Yoon, Ibi Zoboi and others.

Don't miss our listing of favorite middle school poems, likewise.