Rec a non-fiction short story please

[janetplanet20]

I think the Chicken Soup for the Soul books might have what you're looking for.

[pinkpinot]

Eli Wiesel's Night comes to mind. It's short. It's about the Holocaust and he's narrating a time in his life when he was young.

A Stolen Life by Jaycee Duggard (not very short but interesting enough that you'll blow through it in a day or two)

Okay and other recs I have are just as morbidly and sad as those two.

[janetplanet20]

Jul 31, 2014 12:21:19 GMT -5 tators said:

Jul 31, 2014 12:17:57 GMT -5 toledo said:

Non-fiction short story?

Like an urban legend?

lol. I dont think urban legend= non-fiction.
I wish..
janetplanet20 good idea!

We do out loud reading in home room every morning where I teach (7th-8th grade) and my students LOVE the chicken soup for the soul books. Not sure what you need it for, but if you're using them with teens/young adults, there are chicken soup books specifically for those age groups, too.

[fortnightlily]

Wouldn't this be called…. an essay?

[fortnightlily]

Jul 31, 2014 12:26:41 GMT -5 tators said:

Jul 31, 2014 12:25:44 GMT -5 fortnightlily said:

Wouldn't this be called…. an essay?

No.

Interesting.  I always thought 'short story' inherently implied fiction.  And that short-form non-fiction were essays.

[janetplanet20]

What about Ana's Story (written by Jenna Bush)? I know it's not by a serious author, but it's an interesting read. A few of my former 8th graders read it and loved it. These were kids that didn't enjoy reading.

[pinkpinot]

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah (229 pages)

DogTown by Stefan Bechtel is a collection of short stories about dogs rescued and rehabilitated at Best Friend's Animal Sanctuary

[janetplanet20]

You could use long form articles. This website has a bunch specifically for teens. longform.org/tags/high-school
The first one listed is the article that the movie Blue Crush is based on.

[snipsnsnails]

Any Augusten Burroughs. Except Skip Dry if this needs to be kid-friendly. All of Magical Thinking, though.

[snipsnsnails]

Wait, how young are these kids? I was thinking high school, but are we talking younger?

[justjen]

What's the point of this? Would some of the chapters in a Chuck Klosterman book work? Or a Freakonomics?

[snipsnsnails]

Some of the pieces in Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex are non-fiction.

[snipsnsnails]

And, for the ML record, I also call non-fiction short form-essays.

[fortnightlily]

When I was a kid I liked reading "All Creatures Great and Small" and the others of that series by James Herriot. Not a young adult protagonist, though.

[snipsnsnails]

Ha, I want to give suggestions, but I also don't know what exactly you need. Augusten Burroughs might get you fired. Come to think of it, don't they ban Anne Frank, too? Dang, I suck at this.