Short Stories About Urban Teenagers

Young Adult short story collections:

145th Street, by Walter Dean Myers, 2000.
YAFICT MYERS, WALTER DEAN One hund and YPBK M

Big City Cool: Short Stories About Urban Youth, edited by M. Jerry Weiss and Helen S. Weiss, 2002.
813.54 BIG CITY

Face Relations: 11 Stories About Seeing Beyond Color, edited by Marilyn Singer, 2004.

Finding Our Way: Stories, by René Saldaña, Jr., 2004.
YAFICT SALDANA RENE

Finding An Island Like You: Stories of the Barrio, by Judith Ortiz Cofer, 1995.
YAFICT ORTIZ CO JUDITH Island and YPBK O

Necessary Noise: Stories About Our Families As They Really Are, edited by Michael Cart, 2003.
YAFICT NECESSAR  

No Easy Answers: Short Stories About Teenagers Making Tough Choices, edited by Donald R.Gallo, 1997.
YA FICT NO EASY  

Sixteen: Short Stories by Outstanding Writers for Young Adults, edited by Donald R. Gallo, 1984.
YA FICT Sixteen  

Places I Never Meant to Be: Original Stories by Censored Writers, edited by Judy Blume, 1999.
YA FICT PLACES I  

Twelve Shots: Outstanding Short Stories About Guns, edited by Harry Mazer, 1997.
YPBK T

A Way Out of No Way: Writings About Growing Up Black In America, edited by Jacqueline Woodson, 1997.**
808.89896 W364 and YPBK W

Who Am I Without Him?, by Sharon Flake, 2004.
YAFICT FLAKE SHARON Who am  

General Short Story Collections in the Springfield City Library:

The Boy Without a Flag: Tales of the South Bronx, by Abraham Rodriguez, Jr., 1992.
FICT RODRIQUE ABRAHAM Boy  

Children of the Night: the Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1967 to the Present, edited by Gloria Naylor, 1995.
813.0108896 C437  

Don't Erase Me: Stories, by Carolyn Ferrell, 1997.
FICT FERRELL, CAROLYN Don't  

Gorilla, My Love, by Tony Cade Bambera, 1971, reprinted 1992.
FICT BAMBARA, TONI CADE Gorilla  

The Latino Reader, edited by Harold Augenbraum and Margarite Fernandez Olmos, 1997.**
810.80868 LATINO R  

More Stories We Tell: The Best Contemporary Short Stories by North American Women, edited by Wendy Martin, 2004.
New Case 813.0108928 MORE  

The Moths and Other Stories, by Helena Maria Viramontes, 1985.
FICT V811.52

Short Fiction by Hispanic Writers of the United States, edited by Nicolas Kanellos, 1993.
813.0108868 SHORT FI  

Streetlights: Illuminating Tales of the Urban Black Experience, edited by DorisJean Austin and Martin Simmons, 1996.
813.0108321 S915  

Other short story collections available through C/WMARS:

Childhood and Other Neighborhoods, by Stuart Dybeck, 1980.

Taking It Home: Stories from the Neighborhood, by Tony Ardizzone, 1996.

**includes non-fiction

Useful Websites:

"Using Short Story Collections in the Classroom," by Teri S. Lesene (mentions many works). In The Alan Review, Spring 1994, Vol. 21, Number 3.
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ALAN/spring94/Lesesne.html