Small Avalanches and Other Stories

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First edition

Small Avalanches and Other Stories is a young adult collection of short stories by Joyce Carol Oates. It was her second young adult book and, as of January 2007, her only collection of short stories for young adults. It was published in 2003 by HarperTempest, an imprint of HarperCollins.^[1]

Stories[]

The collection includes a mix of previously published and new stories. The following stories appear:

Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
The Sky Blue Ball
Small Avalanches
Haunted
Bad Girls
How I Contemplated the World...
Shot
Why Don't You Come Live With Me It's Time
Life After High School
Capricorn
The Visit
The Model

References[]

^ Silvey, Anita (2006). 500 Great Books for Teens. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. p. 311. ISBN 978-0-618-61296-3.

v t Works by Joyce Carol Oates
The Wonderland Quartet	A Garden of Earthly Delights (1967) (1968) Them (1969) Wonderland (1971)
The Gothic Saga	Bellefleur (1980) (1982) (1984) My Heart Laid Bare (1998) The Accursed (2013)
Other novels	With Shuddering Fall (1964) (1973) (1975) (1976) Son of the Morning (1978) (1979) (1979) (1981) (1985) (1986) You Must Remember This (1987) American Appetites (1989) Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart (1990) Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang (1993) (1994) Zombie (1995) We Were the Mulvaneys (1996) Man Crazy (1997) (1999) Blonde (2000) Middle Age: A Romance (2001) I'll Take You There (2002) (2003) The Falls (2004) (2005) Black Girl / White Girl (2006) The Gravedigger's Daughter (2007) My Sister, My Love (2008) Little Bird of Heaven (2009) Mudwoman (2012) The Sacrifice (2015) (2020)
Novellas	Black Water (1992) First Love: A Gothic Tale (1996) Beasts (2001) The Corn Maiden: A Love Story (2005) A Fair Maiden (2010)
Short story collections	By the North Gate (1963) Upon the Sweeping Flood and Other Stories (1966) The Wheel of Love and Other Stories (1970) Marriages and Infidelities (1972) The Goddess and Other Women (1974) Crossing the Border (1976) (1988) Demon and Other Tales (1996) I Am No One You Know: Stories (2004) High Lonesome: New & Selected Stories, 1966–2006 (2006) The Museum of Dr. Moses: Tales of Mystery and Suspense (2007) Wild Nights! (2008) Dear Husband (2009) The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares (2011) (2016)
Short stories	"Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" (1963) "Stalking" (1972) "The Temple" (1996)
Young adult fiction	Big Mouth & Ugly Girl (2002) Small Avalanches and Other Stories (2003) Freaky Green Eyes (2003) Sexy (2005) After the Wreck, I Picked Myself Up, Spread My Wings, and Flew Away (2006)

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