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A list of the pieces in this book. Stories of Our Time ï¿½ Thank You, M'am Langston Hughes ï¿½ The Circuit Francisco Jimenez ï¿½ The Bracelet Yoshiko Uchida ï¿½ To Everything There Is a Season ï¿½ Waiting Harry Behn ï¿½ Something Told the Wild Geese Rachel Field ï¿½ Six Haiku translated by Harry Behn ï¿½ Check James Stephens ï¿½ The Pasture Robert Frost ï¿½ A Wintry Sonnet Christina Rossetti ï¿½ The Morns Are Meeker Than They Were Emily Dickinson ï¿½ The Storm Walter de la Mare ï¿½ Swift Things Are Beautiful Elizabeth Coatsworth ï¿½ I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud William Wordsworth ï¿½ Until I Saw the Sea Lilian Moore ï¿½ "To everything there is a season" King James Bible Stories of Scientists ï¿½ Michael Faraday's World Nancy Veglahn ï¿½ Nikola Tesla, Inventor Shawn Lake ï¿½ Healing a Wounded Heart: Daniel Hale Williams William Orem ï¿½ Marie Curie and the Discovery of Radioactivity Mara Rockliff ï¿½ Enrico Fermi: The "Italian Navigator" Dorothy Haas Advice and Instruction ï¿½ The Fish I Didn't Catch John Greenleaf Whittier ï¿½ Work John Ruskin ï¿½ Honest Work ï¿½ For Want of a Horseshoe Nail adapted from James Baldwin ï¿½ Argument Joseph Addison ï¿½ If Rudyard Kipling ï¿½ Can't Edgar Guest ï¿½ Letter to His Son Robert E. Lee ï¿½ Mother to Son Langston Hughes ï¿½ Perseverance Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ï¿½ Rebecca Hilaire Belloc ï¿½ The Story of Augustus Heinrich Hoffmann

Copyright: 2007

ISBN: 9781601530257

Features: NIMAC restricted