Valerie can't remember how she got here, and the more her uncle tries to explain things to her, the harder it is for her to believe him. Magic creatures? Hidden realms? There's just no way.
Interest Level: Middle School Reading Level: 4.5 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, try Story Shares Premium.
Una madre y su hija ponen a prueba su relación a medida que se adaptan a una nueva cultura e idioma, pero ambas aprenden que lo que necesitan es un poco de comprensión.
Interest Level: High School Reading Level: 12.2 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, try Story Shares Premium.
In a place called "Here," there are dragons. Norton is a gardener, dishwasher, and unlikely guide who takes a journey up the dragons' mountain that will change his life forever.
Login to read this and other great titles.
*Sign-up is free for a basic account, but donations are appreciated!
Rachael envies her classmates and their exciting lives outside Chinatown, until a Chinese New Year celebration shows her she has everything she needs right here at home.
Interest Level: Middle School, High School Reading Level: 3.7 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, try Story Shares Premium.
A school project about facing her fears helps Aria understand that family isn't just the people you're related to... it's the people who are always there for you.
Interest Level: High School Reading Level: 3.8 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, try Story Shares Premium.
This short essay explores the experience of young, biracial Americans. What if, instead of choosing one race to identify ourselves, we could check all that apply?
Interest Level: High School, Post High School Reading Level: 5.1 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, try Story Shares Premium.
In the South Valley of Albuquerque, where a strange mix of rural and barrio stream together, Abril is trying to deal with gangbangers and school while training a young unicorn named Chuy.
Interest Level: High School, Middle School Reading Level: 4.8 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, try Story Shares Premium.
A young man becomes trapped in a world of magic by a king. His only chance to escape is to finish a book and defeat a dragon. Can he save the princess in time, or will he perish in his trials?
Interest Level: High School, Middle School Reading Level: 2.7 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, try Story Shares Premium.
Angela thinks she knows every corner of her beloved Pike Place Market, but she discovers there's a whole other, magical Market waiting to be explored at night.
Login to read this and other great titles.
*Sign-up is free for a basic account, but donations are appreciated!
Have you ever wondered what it might be like to live through an ice age? What would you invent to make your life easier? Learn about the inventions that helped people in the Little Ice Age.
Interest Level: Post High School, High School, Middle School Reading Level: 6.4 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, try Story Shares Premium.
When her well goes dry and the rains don't come, a young girl must find help from the strangest place. But will she learn the lessons she needs to learn in time?
Interest Level: Late Elementary, Middle School Reading Level: 3.7 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, try Story Shares Premium.
Moira's son Henry, who has autism, loves his new puppy like he's never loved anything before. When a stranger shows up claiming to be the puppy's real owner, Moira is faced with a painful decision.
Interest Level: Post High School, High School, Middle School, Late Elementary Reading Level: 3.3 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, try Story Shares Premium.
Twelve-year-old Itanya works in a Kenyan factory with her mother in order to scrape by. Her dream is to eat and learn and live like a "normal child," but that dream feels so far from reach.
Interest Level: Middle School Reading Level: 3.3 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, try Story Shares Premium.
Two beetle leaves, three beetle nuts, an unbroken coconut, and a five-paise coin. Will the forest goddess, Maramma, accept these offerings and heal the boy who delivers them to her?
Interest Level: Middle School Reading Level: 3.9 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, try Story Shares Premium.
Aunt Delly has always told Noelle that naughty children get taken away. When Noelle comes to find herself "stolen" by the roaders, it's nothing like what she'd been told.
Interest Level: Middle School Reading Level: 1.9 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, try Story Shares Premium.
Abby's classmates have great topics for their family history projects. Their families are so much more interesting than hers, or so she thinks, until she begins asking the right questions.
Interest Level: Middle School, High School Reading Level: 2.5 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, try Story Shares Premium.
Enrique's never really enjoyed being a teenager. But now he's got a chance—if he can make a change.
Interest Level: Post High School, High School, Middle School Reading Level: 4.1 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, try Story Shares Premium.
Some New Years traditions center around watching the ball drop or staying up until midnight. This celebration focuses on the connections between food, family, and memory.
Interest Level: Middle School Reading Level: 5.4 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, try Story Shares Premium.
Alex knows he wants to be a writer but doesn't know how to write very well. With the help of his English teacher, Alex learns how to improve his writing and how to use it to cope with family issues.
Login to read this and other great titles.
*Sign-up is free for a basic account, but donations are appreciated!
A famine threatens the village, and Fayola will do anything to keep her son from going hungry. Her situation quickly goes from bad to worse . . . but perhaps fortune will smile on her in the end.
Login to read this and other great titles.
*Sign-up is free for a basic account, but donations are appreciated!
Noah is angry, and getting bullied at his new school doesn't help. But when he befriends the principal's daughter, Noah learns how art and friendship can help him heal.
Interest Level: High School Reading Level: 3.0 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, try Story Shares Premium.
When Aubree suggests stealing their rival school's mascot before the big game tomorrow night, she doesn't think Finn will actually take her up on it. This is sure to be a night to remember.
Interest Level: High School Reading Level: 3.8 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, try Story Shares Premium.
Mateo's best friend Kat Nguyen breaks up with him, and he’s far from over it. He has to win her back, but how? The 1950s book "5 Steps to Win Her Heart" just might be the answer he’s looking for.
Interest Level: Middle School Reading Level: 1.1 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, try Story Shares Premium.
Aggressive Bhim and sensitive Nakku are unlikely friends who find trouble when they try to get revenge on their playground bully.
Interest Level: High School, Middle School, Late Elementary Reading Level: 2.1 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, try Story Shares Premium.
Yijia's fifth-grade self has a knack for attracting attention from Mrs. Lou... but not the good kind of attention. One moment stands out in particular, one that she just can't ever forget.
Interest Level: Post High School, High School, Middle School Reading Level: 4.4 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, try Story Shares Premium.
Divided in Land but Together in Heart: A Tale of Cyprus
Living on opposite sides of a divided Cyprus, two teen girls—one of Turkish descent, one of Greek descent—become friends with a shared goal: to bring together old friends and new.
Interest Level: All Ages Reading Level: 3.7 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, try Story Shares Premium.
Nasim is an Iranian American, and as such, is very used to feeling out of place. But there's beauty in being herself, and to find it, she needs to stop letting others tell her who she is.
Interest Level: All Ages Reading Level: 3.9 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, try Story Shares Premium.
In the final installation of The Drake House Outhouse, Maddy and Zach have wrapped up their version of what happened in their corner of the world back in the days of the early pioneers.
Interest Level: Middle School Reading Level: 3.8 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, try Story Shares Premium.
Zach uses his imagination to create a movie script about the Drake family. Maddy objects to Zach’s notion that, “all stories are true and some of them actually happened.
Interest Level: Middle School Reading Level: 2.7 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, try Story Shares Premium.
Zigg finally makes his escape. For the first time in his life, he gets a taste of freedom, but it doesn't last. Soon, a new set of captors are after him.
Login to read this and other great titles.
*Sign-up is free for a basic account, but donations are appreciated!
As a pickle farmer's daughter and a fifth grader with terrible spelling skills, Annabelle believes she is destined to pick prickly green pickles and be the worst speller forever.
Interest Level: Middle School, Late Elementary Reading Level: 4.7 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, try Story Shares Premium.
