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<p class="MsoNormal">Try <i>Seedfolks </i>by Paul <span style="color:black;background:white">
Fleischman. Each chapter is really short but powerful and would not seem like a baby story.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, January 21, 2021 10:08 AM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> [External] Re: [aisle] Super Short Stories - Hi/Lo<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Ooh, tough request. So many short-short stories read like poems in that they demand that readers pay close attention.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">You may find some options on <a href="https://www.commonlit.org/">
Common Lit. </a> I browsed by Genre- (Short Story) and then filtered it to a 6th grade audience and found this
<a href="https://www.commonlit.org/en/texts/seventh-grade">Gary Soto short story</a> that they might like. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 9:02 AM Kate Rogers via AISLE <<a href="mailto:aisle@list.railslibraries.info">aisle@list.railslibraries.info</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am looking for (a book of) <b>short stories for students in our high school special needs classes</b>. These students don't like stories that seem too baby, too elementary. They don't want to read picture books no matter the design or
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<p class="MsoNormal">If I read the stories aloud to them, the reading should last
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