Goodman’s Five-Star Stories
Table of Contents
Adventures
1. "The Day it Snowed Tortillas" by Joe Hayes
2. "The Captain" based on a story by Leo Tolstoy
3. "The Visitors" by George Shea
4. "King Midas and the Golden Touch" a Greek myth
by Nathaniel Hawthone
5. "Tea for Two" by Joan Mosby
6. "Anansi and the Sea" a West African folktale
7. "Clever Grethel" an old tale
8. "Fresh Fish Sold Here" by Angel Flores
9. "The Fire" by Shirley Nagel
10. "The Fight of the Crickets" by Lin Yutang
More Adventures
1. "The
Wish Ring" by Anna Eichberg
2. "The Lady in Black" by O. Henry
3. "Good Advice" by Joe Hayes
4. "A River Story" by Ellen C. Babbitt
5. "The Wild Winds of Wok" by Dorothy Tofte
6. "Stone Soup" an old tale
7. "The Tale of the Wolf" by Lin Yutang
8. "The Tailor's Daughter" by Parker Fillmore
9. "The Man Who Said Moo" a West African folktale
10. "Hercules and the Three Golden Apples" by Nathaniel
Hawthorne, from a Greek myth
Chills
1. "The Old House" by W.W. Jacobs
2. "Uneasy Homecoming" by Will F. Jenkins
3. "Mean Rocky" by George Shea
4. "The Three Brothers and the Treasure" by José
Maria Eça deQueiroz
5. "His Best Time" by Elizabeth Van Steenwyk
6. "The Attic Door" by Judith Bauer Stamper
7. "The Cricket" retold by Joe Hayes
8. "The Ghost of Wan Li Road" by Kara Dalkey
9. "The Family" based on a story by Anton Chekhov
10. "A Helping Hand" by Janet Ritchie
11. "The Shop" by H.G. Wells
12. "It's So Wonderful Here" by Bill Pronzini
More Chills
1. "Playmate" by
Leslie A. Croutch
2. "How Now Purple Cow" by Bill Pronzini
3. "Trapped" by Carmen Hansen
4. "A Terrible Night" based on a story by Anton
Chekhov
5. "The Jade Goddess" by Lin Yutang
6. "The Mirror" by Judith Bauer Stamper
7. "The Mail Coach Road" by Amelia B. Edwards
8. "Ortega's Fortune" by Manuela Williams Crosno
9. "The Strange Orchid" by H.G. Wells
10. "Watch Out!" by Bruce Coville
11. "Mrs. Mansley's View" by Edith Wharton
12. "For Better or Worse" by W.W. Jacobs
Choices
Unit 1: Home
"American Sandwich" by Edite Cunhã
"Antaeus" by Borden Deal
"This Farm for Sale" by Jesse Stuart
Unit 2: A Question
of Identity
"Rules of the Dame" from The Joy Luck Club by
Amy Tan
"To Serve Man" by Damon Knight
"Who Am I This Time?" by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Unit
3: A Touch of Mystery
"Kim's Game" by M.D. Lake
"The President Regrets" by Ellery Queen
"The Adventure of the Speckled Band" by Arthur
Conan Doyle
Unit 4: Shifting Relationships
"The Treasure of Lemon Brown" by Walter Dean Myers
"Mother and Daughter" by Gary Soto
"Somebody's Son" by Richard Pindell
"Sunday in the Park" by Bel Kaufman
Unit 5: The
Way Things End
"Something Green" by Frederic Brown
"The Inn of Lost Time" by Lensey Namioka
"Aunty Misery" retold by Judith Ortiz Cofer
"Those Three Wishes" by Judith Gorog
Discoveries
Unit
1: Friends and Enemies
"The Smuggler" by Victor Canning
"Initiation" by Sylvia Plath
"The Street of the Cañon" by Josefina Niggli
Unit 2: Achievements
"The Horse of the Sword" by Manuel Buaken
"Geraldine Moore the Poet" by Toni Cade Bambara
"Chee's Daughter" by Juanita Platero and Siyowin
Miller
"Tom Edison's Shaggy Dog" by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Unit 3: Masters of Mystery
Previewing the Unit
"The Inspiration of Mr. Budd" by Dorothy L. Sayers
"The Case of the Perfect Maid" by Agatha Christie
"The Red-Headed League" by Arthur Conan Doyle
Unit 4: Something Unexpected
"The Piano" by Aníbal Montiero Machado
"The Widow and the Parrot" by Virginia Woolf
"The Scarlet Ibis" by James Hurst
"The Possibility of Evil" by Shirley Jackson
Unit 5: Searching for Answers
"The Force of Luck" by Rudolfo A. Anaya
"The Good Deed" by Pearl S. Buck
"By the Waters of the Babylon" by Stephen Vincent
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Conflicts
1. "The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell
2. "Raymond's Run" by Toni Cade Bambara
3. "Rikki-tikki-tavi" by Rudyard Kipling
4. "The Mother Goose Madman" by Betty Ren Wright
5. "Split Cherry Tree" by Jesse Stuart
6. "The Tiger's Heart" by Jim Kjelgaard
7. "The Revolt of Mother" by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
8. "The Story-Teller" by Saki
9. "Martinez' Treasure" by Manuela Williams Crosno
10. "The Ransom of Red Chief" by O. Henry
11. "The Bet" by Anton Chekhov
12. "Ta-Na-E-Ka" by Mary Whitebird
13. "All Summer in a Day" by Ray Bradbury
14. "Love of Life" by Jack London
15. "Spelling Bee" by Laurene Chambers Chinn
More Conflicts
1. "Leiningen
Versus the Ants" by Carl Stephenson
2. "The Lady or the Tiger?" by Frank R. Stockton
3. "The Baroque Marble" by E. A. Proulx
4. "The Fifty-first Dragon" by Heywood Broun
5. "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe
6. "The Day the Sun Came Out" by Dorothy M. Johnson
7. "A Retrieved Reformation" by O. Henry
8. "The Stub Book" by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón
9. "The Confidence Game" by Pat Carr
10. "Strawberry Ice-Cream Soda" by Irwin Shaw
11. "To Build a Fire" by Jack London
12. "The Wise Old Woman" retold by Yoshiko Uchida
13. "EPICAC" by Kurt Vonnegut
14. "By Any Other Name" by Sandia Rama Rau
15. "The Country of the Blind" by H.G. Wells
Encounters
1. "Three Skeleton Key" by George G. Toudouze
2. "The Pimienta Pancakes" by O. Henry
3. "The Marble Champ" by Gary Soto
4. "Phut Phat Concentrates" by Lilian Jackson Braun
5. "A Day's Wait" by Ernest Hemingway
6. "All the Years of Her Life" by Morley Callaghan
7. "The Love Letter" by Jack Finney
8. "Fly Like an Eagle" by Elizabeth Van Steenwyk
9. "Don't Tread on Me" by Walter Dean Myers
10. "The Sentimentality of William Tavener" by Willa Cather
11. "Say It with Flowers" by Toshio Mon
12. "The Empty Drum" by Leo Tolstoy
13. "The Story of the Widow's Son" by Mary Lavin
14. "Testimony of Trees" by Jesse Stuart
15. "You Can't Take It with You" by Eva-Lis Wuorio
More Encounters
1. "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving
2. "The Wise and the Weak" by Philip Aponte
3. "Dear Marsha" by Judie Angell
4. "Polar Night" by Norah Burke
5. "I'll Give You Law" by Molly Picon
6. "A Habit for the Voyage" by Robert Edmond Alter
7. "Eleven" by Sandra Cisneros
8. "The Clearing" by Jesse Stuart
9. "The Medicine Bag" by Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve
10. "The Fun They Had" by Isaac Asimov
11. "Lonesome Boy" by Arna Bontemps
12. "My Father Goes to Court" by Carlos Bulosan
13. "The Piece of String" by Guy de Maupassant
14. "Finding the Way" by Helen Keller
15. "The Town Where No One Got Off" by Ray Bradbury
Shocks
1. "The Monkey's Paw" by W.W. Jacobs
2. "The Love Powder" by O. Henry
3. "Dear Amanda" by Linnah Gary
4. "The Expression" by José Francés
5. "The Cog" by Charles Fritch
6. "The Scholarship" by Minfong Ho
7. "The Invaders" by Jack Ritchie
8. "Blue Eyes Far Away" by MacKinlay Kantor
9. "The Cow-Tail Switch" Folktale from Liberia
10. "The Snakes of Bera" by Cecelia Rathbone
11. "Of Missing Persons" by Jack Finney
12. "Matrimony Inn" by Lin Yutang
13. "Rain, Rain, Go Away" by Issac Asimov
14. "The Wind in the Rosebush" by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
15. "The Donkey Goes to Market" by Alice Geer Kelsey
After Shocks
1. "The Jigsaw Puzzle" by Judith Bauer Stamper
2. "A Horseman in the Sky" by Ambrose Bierce
3. "The Eyes Have It" by James McKimmey
4. "The Bus" by Shirley Jackson
5. "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe
6. "Otero's Visitor" by Manuela Williams Crosno
7. "The Falcon" by Giovanni Boccaccw
8. "The Leopard Man's" Story by Jack London
9. "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin
10. "Anansi's Fishing Trip" A Tale from Ghana
11. "A Lodging for the Night" by Lin Yutang
12. "A Work of Art" based on a story by Anton Chekhov
13. "Mrs. Hinck" by Miriam Allen deFord
14. "August Heat" by W.F. Harvey
15. "The Flying Machine" by Ray Bradbury
Sudden Twists
1. "Cemetery Path" by Leonard Q Ross
2. "Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen" by O. Henry
3. "The Dinner Party" by Mona Gardner
4. "People of the Third Planet" by Dale Crail
5. "The Big Day" by Jack Ritchie
6. "The Open Window" by Saki
7. "Charles" by Shirley Jackson
8. "The Getaway" by John Savage
9. "The Lion Roared" by Virginia Eiseman
10. "The Cage" by Martin Raim
11. "Two Were Left" by Hugh B. Cave
12. "The Precious Stones of Axolotyl" by Manuela Williams Crosno
13. "The Immortal Bard" by Isaac Asimov
14. "Appointment at Noon" by Eric Frank Russell
15. "Zoo" by Edward D. Hoch
16. "A Trick of the Trade" by Dorothy S. Pratt
17. "Underwater Test" by Robert Zacks
18. "The Right Kind of House" by Henry Slesar
More Twists
1. "The Interlopers" by Saki
2. "The Last Leaf" by O. Henry
3. "The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant
4. "Appointment with Love" by S. Kishor
5. "The Journey" by Charles Land
6. "Thank You, M'am" by Langston Hughes
7. "Sarah Tops" by Isaac Asimov
8. "Louisa, Please Come Home" by Shirley Jackson
9. "A Dip in the Poole" by Bill Pronzini
10. "The Padre's Neighbor" by Manuela Williams Crosno
11. "Dusk" by Saki
12. "The Sin of Madame Phloi" by Lilian Jackson Braun
13. "The Cop and the Anthem" by O. Henry
14. "The Man and the Snake" by Ambrose Bierce
15. "A Mother in Mannville" by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
16. "Clothes Make the Man" by Henri Duvernois
17. "Lather and Nothing Else" by Hernando Téllez
18. "Test" by Theodore Thomas
Surprises
1. "A Secret for Two" by Quentin Reynolds
2. "The Romance of a Busy Broker" by O. Henry
3. "Mrs. Packletide's Tiger" by Saki
4. "The Piping-Hot Pizza Mystery" by Elizabeth VanSeenwyk
5. "The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry
6. "The Southpaw" by Judith Viorst
7. "His Father's Boots" by Charles Land
8. "The Angel" by Carol Chapman
9. "A White Heron" by Sarah Orne Jewett
10. "Pop's Boy" by Irvin Ashkenazy
11. "Ooka and the Stolen Smell" by I.G. Edmonds
12. "One Thousand Dollars" by O. Henry
13. "Setup" by Jack Ritchie
14. "The Woodcutter's Child" by Manuela Williams Crosno
15. "Gold-Mounted Guns" by F.R. Buckley
More Surprises
1. "After Twenty Years" by O. Henry
2. "A Man Who Had No Eyes" by MacKinlay Kantor
3. "A Service of Love" by O. Henry
4. "The Pen Pal" by Margaret Poynter
5. "Little Stranger" by Walter Henry
6. "The Crane Maiden" by Miyoko Matsutani
7. "Mammon and the Archer" by O. Henry
8. "One Throw" by W.C. Heinz
9. "And If Elected" by Lael J. Littke
10. "A Deal in Diamonds" by Edward D. Hoch
11. "The Missing Step" by Elizabeth VanSteenwyk
12. "Key Item" by Issac Asimov
13. "The Return of Lucio" by Manuela Williams Crosno
14. "Long Winter Ahead" by James McKimmey
15. "A Guest for Halil" by Alice Geer Kelsey
Travels
1. "Selling the Horse" by Don Juan Manuel
2. "The King and the Shoemaker" an old story
3. "Across Time" by Lael J. Littke
4. "Morning Sunshine" a story from West Africa
5. "Two Who Flew" a Greek myth
6. "The Queen's Garden" by Ellen C. Babbitt
7. "Work Well Done" a story from Russia
8. "The Snow Woman" an old story from Japan
More Travels
1. "Answer Me This" a story from Spain
2. "The Game" by Scott C. Mason, Jr.
3. "The Champ" by Sulamith Ish-Kishor
4. "The Old House" by Judith B. Stamper
5. "A Hard World" by Dion Henderson
6. "Yes I Can" a story from West Africa
7. "The Long Sleep" by Lin Yutang
8. "The Driver" by Sinclair Lewis
