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2. The Lesson (short story) - Wikipedia

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   The Lesson (short story) " The Lesson " is a short story by Toni Cade Bambara (1938–1995). It was first published in 1972. [1] The Lesson” is a first-person narrative told by a young, black girl named Sylvia who is growing up in Brooklyn. The story is about a trip initiated by a well-educated woman named Miss Moore who has taken it upon ...

3. Category:Children's short stories - Wikipedia

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   S. Silver Hoof. Sinyushka's Well. Smoke in the Forest. Somebody Else's Prince. The Son of Sobek. The Staff of Serapis. The Stone Flower. Struwwelpeter.

4. The Veldt (short story) - Wikipedia

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   The Veldt (short story) " The Veldt " is a science fiction short story by American author Ray Bradbury. Originally appearing as " The World the Children Made " in the September 23, 1950, issue of The Saturday Evening Post, it was republished under its current name in the 1951 anthology The Illustrated Man.

5. Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories - Wikipedia

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   Followed by. Happy Birthday to You! Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories is a picture book collection by Theodor Seuss Geisel, published under his more commonly known pseudonym of Dr. Seuss. It was first released by Random House Books on April 12, 1958, and is written in Seuss's trademark style, using a type of meter called anapestic tetrameter.

6. The Wolf and the Seven Young Goats - Wikipedia

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   The story was published by the Brothers Grimm in the first edition of Kinder- und Hausmärchen in 1812. Their source was the Hassenpflug family from Hanau. [2] A similar tale, "The Wolf and the Kids", has been told in the Middle East and parts of Europe, and probably originated in the first century.

7. All Summer in a Day - Wikipedia

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   The story is about a class of students on Venus, which, in this story, is a world of constant rainstorms, where the sun is only visible for two hours every seven years. One of the children, Margot, moved to Venus from Earth five years earlier and is the only one who remembers the sun, since it shines regularly on Earth. She describes the sun to ...

8. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (short story) - Wikipedia

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   May 27, 1922. " The Curious Case of Benjamin Button " is a short story about a man who ages in reverse, from senescence to infancy, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was first published in Collier's Magazine on May 27, 1922, with the cover and illustrations by James Montgomery Flagg. It was subsequently anthologized in Fitzgerald's 1922 book ...

9. The Scarlet Ibis - Wikipedia

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   Publication date. July 1960. " The Scarlet Ibis " is a short story written by James Hurst. [1] It was first published in The Atlantic Monthly in July 1960 [2] and won the "Atlantic First" award. [3] The story has become a classic of American literature, and has been frequently republished in high school anthologies and other collections.