Glencoe Literature: The Reader's Choice Course 1, Grade 6 Selection Contents THEME ONE: Where I Belong The Circuit - Francisco Jiménez (Short story from Little by Little - Jean Little (Autobiography) To Young Readers - Gwendolyn Brooks (Poem) Arithmetic - Carl Sandburg (Poem) The All-American Slurp - Lensey Namioka (Short story) The Land of Red Apples - Zitkala-Sa (Autobiography) Primary Lessons - Judith Ortiz Cofer (Autobiography) from The Lost Garden - Laurence Yep (Autobiography) from Homesick - Jean Fritz (Autobiography) THEME TWO:Through Other Eyes from Brother Wolf - Jim Brandenburg (Nonfiction) Why Dogs Are Tame - Julius Lester (Folktale) Mowgli's Brothers - Rudyard Kipling (Short story) The Boy Who Lived with the Bears - Joseph Bruchac (Folktale) Koko: Smart Signing Gorilla - Jean Craighead George (Nonfiction) Zlateh the Goat - Isaac Bashevis Singer (Short story) The Naming of Cats - T. S. Eliot (Poem) Ankylosaurus - Jack Prelutsky (Poem) The Shark - John Ciardi (Poem) Dinner Together - Diana Rivera (Poem) How soft a Caterpillar steps- - Emily Dickinson (Poem) The Bat - Theodore Roethke (Poem) A Minor Bird - Robert Frost (Poem) THEME THREE: Growing Times La Bamba - Gary Soto (Short story) Shoes for Hector - Nicholasa Mohr (Short story) Eleven - Sandra Cisneros (Short story) The Sidewalk Racer or On the Skateboard - Lillian Morrison (Poem) Daydreamers - Eloise Greenfield (Poem) Concha - Mary Helen Ponce (Short story) The Southpaw - Judith Viorst (Short story) Alexander the Great King - Olivia Coolidge (Biography) A Backwoods Boy - Russell Freedman (Biography) THEME FOUR: What's Most Important The Stone - Lloyd Alexander (Short story) April Rain Song - Langston Hughes (Poem) in Just- - E. E. Cummings (Poem) Wings - Jane Yolen (Myth) The Flying Machine - Ray Bradbury (Short story) The White Umbrella - Gish Jen (Short story) Becky and the Wheels-and-Brake Boys - James Berry (Short story) President Cleveland, Where Are You? - Robert Cormier (Short story) THEME FIVE: The Will to Win Satchel Paige - Bill Littlefield (Biography) The King of Mazy May - Jack London (Short story) Priscilla and the Wimps - Richard Peck (Short story) Pecos Bill - Mary Pope Osborne (Folktale) Baker's Bluejay Yarn - Mark Twain (Short story) Doc Rabbit, Bruh Fox, and Tar Baby - Virginia Hamilton (Folktale) The Toad and the Donkey - Toni Cade Bambara (Folktale) THEME SIX: Getting Through Hard Times Whatif - Shel Silverstein (Poem) Life Doesn't Frighten Me - Maya Angelou (Poem) Abd al-Rahman Ibrahima - Walter Dean Myers (Biography) The Gold Cadillac - Mildred D. Taylor (Short story) The Horse Snake - Huynh Quang Nhuong (Autobiography) from Woodsong - Gary Paulsen (Autobiography) The Dog of Pompeii - Louis Untermeyer (Short story) from Volcano - Patricia Lauber (Nonfiction) from When Plague Strikes - James Cross Giblin (Nonfiction) THEME SEVEN: Old Tales, New Twists Creation - Shonto Begay (Poem) Leyenda - Pat Mora (Poem) All Stories Are Anansi's - Harold Courlander (Folktale) The End of the World - Jenny Leading Cloud (Myth) Porcupine and the Sky Mirrors - Katherine Davison (Folktale) The Fly - Mai Vo-Dinh (Folktale) Dragon, Dragon - John Gardner (Modern fairy tale) The Enchanted Raisin - Jacqueline Balcells (Modern fairy tale) Damon and Pythias - Fan Kissen (Drama) THEME EIGHT: To Strange Places The Pied Piper of Hamelin - Robert Browning (Narrative poem) The Walrus and the Carpenter - Lewis Carroll (Narrative poem) Aunt Millicent - Mary Steele (Short story) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl and Richard George (Drama) Future Tense - Robert Lipsyte (Short story) The Sand Castle - Alma Luz Villanueva (Short story).