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10 best books like On the Fringe (Donald R. Gallo): 13: Thirteen Stories That Capture the Agony and Ecstasy of Being Thirteen, Guys Write for Guys Read, Necessary Roughness, Wrestling Sturbridge, Shakespeare Bats Cleanup, Graven Images, What They Found: Love on 145th Street, Ricochet, Falling Hard: 100 Love Poems by Teenagers, Twice Told: Original Stories Inspired by Original Artwork

13: Thirteen Stories That Capture the Agony and Ecstasy of Being Thirteen
AuthorJames Howe
ISBN1416926844
"If thirteen is supposed to be an unlucky number...you would think a civilized society could come up with a way for us to skip it."

-- from "What's the Worst That Could Happen?" by Bruce Coville

No one will want to skip any of the twelve short stories and one poem that make up this collection...
Guys Write for Guys Read
AuthorJon Scieszka
ISBN0670060275
What is a typical guy moment, anyhow? Daniel Pinkwater remembers the disappointment of meeting his Lone Star Ranger hero up close and personal. Gordon Korman relishes the goofy ultra violence of the old Looney Tunes cartoons. Stephen King realizes that having your two hundred-pound babysitter fart...
Necessary Roughness
AuthorMarie Myung-Ok Lee (Marie G. Lee)
ISBN0064471691
Chan Kim has never felt like an outsider in his life. That is, not until his family moves from L.A. to a tiny town in Minnesota--Land of 10,000 Lakes--and probably 10,000 hicks,too. The Kims are the only Asian family in town, and when Chan and his twin sister, Young, attend high school, it's a blond-haired,...
Wrestling Sturbridge
AuthorRich Wallace
ISBN0679885552
Another interesting sports and character book; small town wrestling team out East is the obsession of the whole town (like football in Odessa/Midland). The place is the kind of town most kids can't wait to leave, and the teenage behavior is pretty accurate - lots of drinking by athletes and cheerleaders,...
Shakespeare Bats Cleanup
AuthorRon Koertge
ISBN0763629391
"This funny and poignant novel celebrates the power of writing to help young people make sense of their lives and unlock and confront their problems." - SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL (starred review)

When MVP Kevin Boland gets the news that he has mono and won't be seeing a baseball field for a while,...
Graven Images
AuthorPaul Fleischman
ISBN0763627755
Paul Fleischman spins three engrossing stories about the unexpected ways an artist's creations reveal truths - tales whose intriguing plots and many moods will entertain readers and inspire future writers.

Can wood, copper, or marble communicate? They can if they are the graven images...
What They Found: Love on 145th Street
AuthorWalter Dean Myers
ISBN0385321384
WALTER DEAN MYERS returns to the world of 145th Street: Short Stories to show how love can be found, and thrive, in the most unlikely places. Curtis finds love in Iraq as he struggles to stay alive in a war he doesn't want to fight, and Letha discovers her own beauty in the love of her child. There is the "good...
Ricochet
AuthorJulie Gonzalez
ISBN0385732287
The character Will is such a bully! But he got what he deserved by being put in jail. He pressured all his friends (Ryan,Daniel,and Connor) in to playing the game russian roulet. He finally got Connor and Ryan to take a turn, but he thought Daniel was to chicken (which he was). Then Will decided to make daniel...
Falling Hard: 100 Love Poems by Teenagers
AuthorBetsy Franco
ISBN0763648396
“The quality here is head and shoulders above most young writers’ collections, and in fact it’s well above many adult anthologies as well.”
— Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books (starred review)

The poets are straight, gay, lesbian, bi, or transgender. They live...
Twice Told: Original Stories Inspired by Original Artwork
AuthorScott W. Hunt
ISBN0525468188
I can't believe it took me this long to read this book!! I loved it! Artist Scott Hunt provides 9 evocative charcoal drawings meant to inspire narration, and 18 authors for teens write short stories about them. There are two stories for each picture, proving that there is no "right" way to interpret a picture....
Bending the Landscape: Original Gay and Lesbian Horror Writing
AuthorNicola Griffith
ISBN1585673722
Two major things: some of the authors are straight, and this isn't leave-the-lights-on horror. There's a lot of good stories in here (a decent handful about southern gay ppl dealing with ghosts and other such things, which is exactly the kind of thing I love) and there's also some that are just bad. The...
The SOS File
AuthorBetsy Byars
ISBN0805068880
Have you ever needed to call 9-1-1, but you couldn't get to a phone? Have you ever needed to run, but your legs were like spaghetti? Have you ever needed to yell "help!" but your throat was dry with fear?

Laugh, cry, and panic with Mr. Magro's class as they listen to twelve exciting SOS tales

Throughout...
The Restless Dead: Ten Original Stories of the Supernatural
AuthorDeborah Noyes
ISBN0763629065
Ten extraordinary authors spin hair-raising original tales collected by the anthologist of GOTHIC!

With scary stories by: M. T. Anderson, Holly Black, Libba Bray, Herbie Brennan, Nancy Etchemendy, Annette Curtis Klause, Kelly Link, Deborah Noyes, Marcus Sedgwick, and Chris Wooding

Enter...
In the Land of the Lawn Weenies and Other Warped and Creepy Tales
AuthorDavid Lubar
ISBN0765345706
Kids can be such monsters. Literally.

From the award-winning author of Hidden Talents, two remarkable short story collections - Kidzilla and The Witch's Monkey - together for the first time. Plus several brand new stories. Each hilarious and harrowing. A substitute teacher finds out she...
American Masculine
AuthorShann Ray
ISBN1555975887
Winner of the 2010 Bakeless Prize for Fiction, a muscular debut that reconfigures the American West

The American West has long been a place where myth and legend have flourished. Where men stood tall and lived rough. But that West is no more. In its place Shann Ray finds washedup basketball players,...
Angry Management
AuthorChris Crutcher
ISBN0060502479
Every kid in this group wants to fly. Every kid in this group has too much ballast.

Mr. Nak's Angry Management group is a place for misfits. A place for stories. And, man, does this crew have stories.

There's Angus Bethune and Sarah Byrnes, who can hide from everyone but each other. Together,...
Friends: Stories About New Friends, Old Friends, And Unexpectedly True Friends
AuthorAnn M. Martin
ISBN0439729912
Stories of friendship from some of the most acclaimed and dynamic writers in children's books today, edited by Ann M. Martin and David Levithan, with all proceeds going to The Lisa Libraries.

The friend can be the girl next door . . . or a faithful dog . . . or a teacher . . . or just plain invisible....
What You Wish For: A Book for Darfur
AuthorAlexander McCall Smith
ISBN0399254544
A stellar collection from Newbery medalists and bestselling authors written to benefit Darfuri refugees

With contributions from some of the best talent writing for children today, What You Wish For is a compelling collection of affecting, inspiring, creepy, and oft-times funny short...
Girl Meets Boy: Because There Are Two Sides to Every Story
AuthorKelly Milner Halls
ISBN1452102643
What do guys and girls really think? Twelve of the most dynamic and engaging YA authors writing today team up for this one-of-a-kind collection of "he said/she said" stories-he tells it from the guy's point of view, she tells it from the girl's. These are stories of love and heartbreak. There's the good-looking...
More Bones
AuthorArielle North Olson
ISBN0670063398
Ready for scary?! Shhh! Have you heard about the man who marries . . . a corpse?! Or what about the magic school where one student in every class is never allowed to leave? Or the beautiful red-haired maiden whose hair is actually serpents? Many of these tales go back hundreds of years and to the farthest...
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