Pick-Up Game: A Full Day of Full Court

Short Stories

E/A Aronson (ed.), Marc. Pick-Up Game: a full day of full court. Candlewick Press, 2011. 176 p. 978076364625 $15.99

This collection of short stories shows a day in the life of The Cage, the premier amateur basketball court in NYC. Photos and poems by Charles R. Smith, Jr. introduce each story which highlights a different player. With Walter Dean Myers, Rita Williams-Garcia, Bruce Brooks, Sharon G. Flake and more, every one of these stories is a slam dunk. Recommended for basketball fans and all high school collections.

Sarah Mae Harper, CoLAPL- AC Bilbrew Library

Sideshow: Ten Original Tales of Freaks, Illusionists, and Other Matters Odd and Magical

High School Fiction Short Stories

G/M Noyes, Deborah (editor). Sideshow: Ten Original Tales of Freaks, Illusionists, and Other Matters Odd and Magical. Candlewick, 2009. 240p. 978-0763637521. 16.99.

Kids who have graduated from Scary Stories To Tell in the Dark and want darker, creepier tales, will love this collection from editor Deborah Noyes. It has 10 stories (7 short stories and 3 graphic stories) written by beloved Young Adult authors, such as Vivan Vande Velde and Annette Curtis Klause, that are all based around the theme of freaks and human oddities. A couple of the stories fall flat, but the majority are not only creepy, but entertaining too. Favorites include: The Bread Box, Jargo and Those Psychics on TV. Loren Spector, LAPL, Felipe de Neve