20 grand great American short stories Author:various Here are 20 great American short stories. Written by men and women who are nationally famous, these stories appeared in Scholastic Magazine, and have been collected here especially for scholars and young adults. Here you will go to the far North with Elliott Merrick to track the Seven Islands Indian, Mathieu, on a strange and gruelling manhunt i... more »n frozen Labrador. Here John Steinbeck will introduce you to Elisa, who had magic in her fingers but whose heart yearned for what it could not have. And here in the family story Maureen Daly wrote when she was 16, you have a ringside seat at a monlit meeting on ice skates. Here you'll find stories by Sinclair Lewis, Dorothy Parker, Jesse Stuart and Ring Lardner and a host of other famous names in big time fiction.« less