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Unit 1 Finding Your Place in the World

Selection / Author	Page
"Zebra" / Chaim Potok	5
"Be-ers and Doers" / Budge Wilson	27
"Name Giveaway" / Phil George	43
"The Fan Club" / Rona Maynard	49
"Destroy the Four Olds!" from Red Scarf Girl / Ji-li Jiang	61

Unit 2 The World Around Us

Selection / Author	Page
"in the inner city" / Lucille Clifton and "The City Is So Big" / Richard Garcia	89
"Jed's Grandfather" / Joseph Bruchac	95
"Under the Harvest Moon" and "Theme in Yellow" / Carl Sandburg	105
"The Green Mamba" / Roald Dahl	113
"Ships in the Desert" / Al Gore	127
"Song of the Thunders" and "Song of the Crows"	139

Unit 3 From One World to Another

Selection / Author	Page
"Hollywood and the Pits" / Cherylene Lee	159
"The Serial Garden" / Joan Aiken	175
"An Unforgettable Journey" / Maijue Xiong	197
"The Inn of Lost Time" / Lensey Namioka	209

Unit 4 A Sporting Life

Selection / Author	Page
How She Played the Game / Cynthia L. Cooper	241
"First Love" / Carl Lindner and "Point Guard" / Arnold Adoff	262
"400-Meter Freestyle" / Maxine Kumin	269
from Off the Court / Arthur Ashe	276
"Roberto Clemente: A Bittersweet Memoir" / Jerry Izenberg	295

Unit 5 Chills and Thrills

"The 11:59" / Patricia McKissack	327
"Pets" / Avi	341
"Qwertyuiop" / Vivien Alcock	357
"The Foghorn" / Ray Bradbury	371
"The Tell-Tale Heart" / Edgar Allan Poe	385

Unit 6 Taking Flight

Selection / Author	Page
"The Hummingbird That Lived through Winter" / William Saroyan	405
"Sympathy" / Paul Laurence Dunbar and "Caged Bird" / Maya Angelou	417
"The Challenger Disaster" / Peggy Noonan	424
"Flying" / Reeve Lindbergh	432
"Feel Like a Bird" / May Swenson	447

Unit 7 Pass It On: World Mythology

Selection / Author	Page
"Persephone and Demeter" / retold by Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire	473
"The Epic of Gilgamesh" / retold by Christina Kolb	481
"The Secret Name of Ra" / retold by Geraldine Harris	491
"Why the Sky Is Far Away from the Earth" / retold by Fitzgerald Iyamabo	500
"The Instruction of Indra" / retold by Joseph Campbell with Bill Moyers	507
"Amaterasu" / retold by Carolyn Swift	515

Unit 8 Stories to Tell: Fiction

Selection / Author	Page
"The Ground Is Always Damp" / Luci Tapahonso	534
"Luke Baldwin's Vow" / Morley Callaghan	541
"Getting the Facts of Life" / Paulette Childress	555
"A Secret for Two" / Quentin Reynolds	569
The Snow Goose / Paul Gallico	577

Unit 9 Words in Motion: Poetry

Selection / Author	Page
"Poetry" / Nikki Giovanni and "How to Eat a Poem" / Eve Merriam	613
"Filling Station" / Elizabeth Bishop and "A Deserted Barn" / Larry Woiwode	619
"the / sky / was" / E. E. Cummings	625
"I to My Perils" / A. E. Housman	630
"Blackberry Eating" / Galway Kinnell	634
"Forgotten Language" and "Hector the Collector" / Shel Silverstein	638
"The Lost Parrot" / Naomi Shihab Nye	645
"My Father's Song" / Simon Ortiz	650
"The Charge of the Light Brigade" / Alfred, Lord Tennyson	656
"Corners on the Curving Sky" / Author Unknown	661
"Under the Apple Tree" / Diana Rivera	664
Haiku / Matsuo Basho, Yosa Buson, Kobayashi Issa	669

Unit 10 Turning Words into Action: Drama

Selection / Author	Page
The Miracle Worker Act 1 / William Gibson	687
The Miracle Worker Act 2 / William Gibson	687
The Miracle Worker Act 3 / William Gibson	687

Unit 11 Telling It As It Is: Nonfiction

Selection / Author	Page
"Elizabeth I" / Milton Meltzer	769
"Caesar the Giant" / Gary Paulsen	780
"Appearances Are Destructive" / Mark Mathabane	791
"The Size of Things" / Robert Jastrow	799
"The Price of Freedom" / Cassandra M. Vanhooser	809

Unit 12 Reading Between the Lines: Informational and Visual Media

Selection / Author	Page
Variations in Vital Signs by Age; Temperature Conversions	831
Historical Photographs: Oklahoma Dust Bowl, 1930s / Arthur Rothstein	837
"The Aqualung" from The New Way Things Work / David Macaulay	844
"How to Chop an Onion in Four Easy Steps" / Ken Haedrich	850