STORIES FOR YOUNG ADULTS
(excerpts from posts)
(If you want to retell any of the stories listed below, be sure to obtain permission from the copyright holder if the material is not in the public domain)

1) Stories to tell to Young Adults
The Blue Rose
Clever Manka
Cupid and Psyche (and other Greek Myths)
The Lady or the Tiger
Stories by Edgar Allen Poe
Ghost Stories/tales that scare? mostly contemporary

2) From author Jerod Twiford:
http://www.geocities.com/animated_malamutes/Jerods_Stories

3)  Delightful stories for Stories for Secondary School students and Young Adults by © Daryll Bellingham, Australian Storyteller. 1997.
St Margaret's Anglican Girls School Is Simply Dripping With History
 A spooky story created with year eight students about a history lesson that goes strangely wrong.
 
Me Mate Spider and the Mosquitos.
 A typical Australian tall story set in Brisbane's beautiful Moreton Bay. Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent.
 
The Pied Piper of Hamelin.
 Here's my adaption of a traditional European folk tale. I've retold it to emphasise the surprising environmental and political messages of the story.
http://members.optusnet.com.au/%7Edbelling/Read.html

4) Epic stories: Two UK tellers, Hugh Lupton and Daniel Morden, tell The Odyssey. There may be recordings of it.




(This web page updated 8/10/03)