Summer Enrichment
Here are some favorite short stories for middle schoolers:
- “Seventh Grade” by Gary Soto
- “Flowers for Algernon” by Daniel Keyes
- “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker
- “Lamb to the Slaughter” by 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” by Neil Gaiman
- “Names/Nombres” by Julia Alvarez
- “To Build a Fire” by Jack London
- “The Fly” by Katherine Mansfield
- “Rules of the Game” by Amy Tan
- “Liars Don’t Qualify” by Junius Edwards
- “The Sniper” by Liam O’Flaherty
- “Civil Peace” by Chinua Achebe
- “The Friday Everything Changed“ by Anne Hart
- “The Scholarship Jacket” by 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” by Kurt Vonnegut
- “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor
- “Eleven” by Sandra Cisneros
- “Thank You, Ma’am” by Langston Hughes
- “Believing in Brooklyn” by Matt de la Pena (link is to collection where story can 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” by Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve
- “Stop the Sun” by Gary Paulsen
- “Mother and Daughter” by Gary Soto
- “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allen Poe
- “The Hitchhiker” by Lucille Fletcher