Library staff member here needing some help finding additional suggestions for a patron. I've been helping doing this weekly with her for months so I've exhausted my recommendations.
I have a patron who volunteers for an organization where she is reading to a group of teens once a week for about an hour. The same kids don't always show up every week so we can't have something that is spread out across multiple weeks/session.
"Traditional" staples of YA like vampires and werewolves haven't gone over well.
Two of the biggest hits were: The Chronicles of Harris Burdick and Cloaked in Red by Vivian Vande Velde
It doesn't have to limited to just short stories/collections but it needs to be something that can be read in an hour session. It also doesn't need to be necessarily from the YA section; just something teens would enjoy listening to & something an elderly woman would feel comfortable reading aloud.
Thanks!
by RhenHarper
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Tunneling to the Center of the Earth by Kevin Wilson
What We Fed to the Manticore by Talia Lakshmi Kolluri
Ray Bradbury has so many fantastic short stories! So does Roald Dahl.
Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson retellings of Greek myths.
A backpack filled with sunsets by ifeanyi Ogbo
The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell
To Build a Fire by Jack London
The Monkey’s Paw by W. W. Jacobs
A Modest Proposal by Johnathan Swift
Check out Neil Gaiman’s “M is for Magic” collection. Most stories are around 20-30 mins to read and they’re pretty good for teens. No gore or sex stuff, just cool fantasy/mystery stories. My teen reading group loved “Chivalry” and “Troll Bridge” from that book.
Also “Flying Lessons & Other Stories” edited by Ellen Oh has some good ones. Its got different authors and styles so you can pick what works best for your group each week.