UNIT ONE
COLLECTION ONE: COURAGE
| Judith Berry Griffin | Phoebe and the General |
| Jean Craighead George | The Wounded Wolf |
| Osage Tradition | A Wolf |
| Irene Hunt | from Across Five Aprils |
| Eleanor Farjeon | The Quarrel |
| Judith Viorst | Apology |
| Victoria Furman | The Race |
| David L. Parker | The Stoiry of Iqbal Masih |
| Langston Hughes | Words Like Freedom |
WORKSHOP ONE: RECOGNIZING PLOT
| Marjorie Weinman Sharmat | Dear Miss Veloshin |
| Stephen Leacock | The Great Detective |
| Ogden Nash | Adventures of Isabel |
| Alma Flor Ada | The Gold Coin |
| Johanna Hurwitz | The Empty Box |
| Alex Haley | My Furthest Back Person |
| Amy Ling | Grandma Ling |
| Norah Burke | Polar Night |
| Denise Levertov | Moon Tiger |
CURTAINS UP! ONE
| T. S. Elliot | The Rum Tum Tugger |
| Michael & Molly Hardwick | The Dying Detective |
UNIT TWO
COLLECTION TWO: NEW FRONTIERS
| Steven Vincent Benet | Western Wagons |
| Jack London | The King of Mazy May |
| Eve Pownall | No Medals for Mary |
| Maxine Kimin | The Microscope |
| Glinette Tilley Turner | Garrett A. Morgan |
| Don L. Wulffson | The Kid Who Invented the Popsicle |
| Eudora Welty | from One Writer's Beginnings |
| Beverly McLoughland | Crazy Boys |
| Frank Richards | First Flight |
| Rosemary & Stephen Vincent Benet | Wilbur Wright & Orville Wright |
| Myra Cohn Livingston | Moon |
| Sally Ride with Susan Okie | from To Space and Back |
| Edward Wellen | Call Me Proteus |
WORKSHOP TWO: DEFINING CHARACTER
| Robert Fulghum | The Rap on the Door |
| Don Haynie | The Biggest Problem |
| William Saroyan | The Rescue of the Perishing |
| Leo Tolstoy | The Old Grandfather and His Little Grandson |
| Robert Hayden | Those Winter Sundays |
| Javaka Steptoe | Seeds |
| Sandra Cisneros | Abuelito Who |
| Dorothy West | The Richer, the Poorer |
| Gail B. Graham | The Beggar in the Blanket |
| Russell Baker | from Growing Up |
| Arthur Cavanaugh | Miss Awful |
| Molly Picon | I’ll Give You Law |
CURTAINS UP! TWO
| N. M. Bodecker | Sing Me a Song of Teapots and Trumpets |
| James Thurber | The Great Quillow |
UNIT THREE
COLLECTION THREE: OUR NATURAL WORLD
| Patricia MacLachlan | Bringing the Prairie Home |
| Lilian Moore | Beach Stones |
| Diana Cohen Conway | Little Swallow |
| Robert Frost | A Minor Bird |
| Dale Ferguson | The Island of the Endangered |
| Ogden Nash | A Nash Menagerie |
| Bailey White | Turkeys |
| Charlotte Zolotow | Change |
| A. Lentini | Autumntime |
| Frank Asch | Saguaro |
| Charlotte Pomerantz | The Day They Parachuted On Borneo: A Drama of Ecology |
WORKSHOP THREE: EXPLORING SETTING
| Myron Levoy | Keplik, the Match Man |
| D. H. Lawrence | Baby Running Barefoot |
| A. A. Milne | Halfway Down |
| E. E. Cummings | who are you,little i |
| Richard E. Albert | Alejandro's Gift |
| William Butler Yeats | The Cat and the Moon |
| Jesse Stewart | What America Means to Me |
| Emma Lazarus | The New Colossus |
| Ralph Helfer | The Flood |
UNIT FOUR
COLLECTION AND WORKSHOP FOUR: POETRY
| Traditional | Betty Botter |
| May Swenson | Living Tenderly |
| Edna St. Vincent Millay | Counting-out Rhyme |
| Edward Lear | There Was an Old Person of Mold |
| Edward Lear | There Was an Old Person of Dutton |
| Raymond R. Patterson | Glory, Glory |
| Basho | In My New Clothing |
| Arthur Guiterman | Habits of the Hippopotamus |
| John Updike | Player Piano |
| Barbara Juster Esbensen | Icicles |
| E. E. Cummings | Tumbling-hair |
| Paul Fleischman | The Passenger Pigeon |
| Carl Sandburg | Arithmetic |
| Pablo Neurda | Ode to an Artichoke |
UNIT FIVE
COLLECTION FIVE: FABLES LEGENDS FOLKLORE
| Leo Tolstoy | The King and the Shirt |
| James Thurber | The Tiger Who Would Be King |
| I. G. Edmonds | Ooka and the Stolen Smell |
| Aesop & James Reeves | The Ant and the Grasshopper Fable |
| Aesop & Ennis Rees Aesop | The Fox and the Grapes Fable |
| Aesop & Ennis Rees Aesop | Jean de La Fontaine |
| Jay Williams | Duke Pishposh of Pash |
WORKSHOP FIVE: UNDERSTANDING THEME
| Ann Cameron | The Pudding Like a Night on the Sea |
| Sandra Cisneros | Eleven |
| Julia Cummingham | A short long story |
| Herbert Goldstone | Virtuoso |
| Walter Dean Meyers | Ibrahima |
| Gabriel Olvera | Hug |
| Nora Mards Dauenhauer | A Poem for Jim Nagataak'w |
| Lloyd Alexander | The Cat and the Golden Egg |
| May Swenson | Southbound on the Freeway |
UNIT SIX
THE GRAND FINALE: PULLING IT ALL TOGETHER
| Pedro Antonio de Alarcon | The Stub-Book |
| Gloria Gonzalez | The Boy with Yellow Eyes |
| Robert Fulghum | The Lady and the Spider |
| Jack London | Earthquake: The story of an Eyewitness |
| James Harriot | Alfred the Sweet-Shop Cat |
| Gibbons Ruark | The Visitor |
| Roman Numerals | |
| Handbook of Literary Terms | |
| Glossary | |
| Index of Authors and Titles | |
| Acknowledgements |