Small Avalanches and Other Stories

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 is also the longest of her young adult books. It was published in 2003 by HarperTempist.^[1]

Stories

Several of the stories have been published before, but there were a few new stories in this collection.

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.

Works by Joyce Carol Oates

The Wonderland Quartet	A Garden of Earthly Delights (1967) Expensive People (1968) Them (1969) Wonderland (1971)

The Gothic Saga	Bellefleur (1980) A Bloodsmoor Romance (1982) Mysteries of Winterthurn (1984) My Heart Laid Bare (1998) The Accursed (2013)

Other novels	With Shuddering Fall (1964) Do with Me What You Will (1973) The Assassins: A Book of Hours (1975) Childwold (1976) Son of the Morning (1978) Cybele (1979) Unholy Loves (1979) Angel of Light (1981) Solstice (1985) Marya: A Life (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) What I Lived For (1994) Zombie (1995) We Were the Mulvaneys (1996) Man Crazy (1997) Broke Heart Blues (1999) Blonde (2000) Middle Age: A Romance (2001) I'll Take You There (2002) The Tattooed Girl (2003) The Falls (2004) Missing Mom (2005) Black Girl / White Girl (2006) The Gravedigger's Daughter (2007) My Sister, My Love (2008) Little Bird of Heaven (2009) A Fair Maiden (2010) Mudwoman (2012) Daddy Love (2013) Carthage (2014)

Novellas	The Triumph of the Spider Monkey (1976) I Lock My Door Upon Myself (1990) The Rise of Life on Earth (1991) Black Water (1992) First Love: A Gothic Tale (1996) Beasts (2001) Rape: A Love Story (2003) The Corn Maiden: A Love Story (2005) Evil Eye: Four Novellas of Love Gone Wrong (2013)

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) The Hungry Ghosts: Seven Allusive Comedies (1974) Night-Sides (1977) The Assignation (1988) Where is Here? (1992) Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque (1994) Demon and Other Tales (1996) Will You Always Love Me? And Other Stories (1996) The Collector of Hearts: New Tales of the Grotesque (1998) Faithless: Tales of Transgression (2001) I Am No One You Know: Stories (2004) The Female of the Species: Tales of Mystery and Suspense (2006) 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) Sourland: Stories (2010) Give Me Your Heart: Tales of Mystery and Suspense (2011) The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares (2011) Black Dahlia & White Rose (2012)

Poetry	Women In Love and Other Poems (1968) Anonymous Sins & Other Poems (1969) Love and Its Derangements (1970) Angel Fire (1973) The Fabulous Beasts (1975) Women Whose Lives Are Food, Men Whose Lives Are Money (1978) Invisible Woman: New and Selected Poems, 1970–1982 (1982) The Time Traveler (1989) Tenderness (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)

As "Lauren Kelly"	Take Me, Take Me With You (2003) The Stolen Heart (2005) Blood Mask (2006)

As "Rosamond Smith"	Lives of the Twins (1987) Soul/Mate (1989) Nemesis (1990) Snake Eyes (1992) You Can't Catch Me (1995) Double Delight (1997) Starr Bright Will Be With you Soon (1999) The Barrens (2001)