UNIT 1 Thrills and Laughter 1
Battle by the Breadfruit Tree&Theodore J.Waldeck 3
Encounter with an Octopus&John D.Craig 12
The Twins&Henry Sambrooke Leigh 17
The Legacy of Canyon John&Margaret Leighton 18
Getting Ready for the Big Show,a picture article&Al Hine 27
Inside the F.B.I.&John J.Floherty 31
Limericks 39
The Mystery in Four-and-a-Half Street&Donald and Louise Peattie 40
The Ransom of Red Chief&O.Henry 50
LOOKING BACKWARD 60
YOUR BOOK REVIEWER 61
UNIT 2 As Others See Us 63
Champion Stock&Bud Murphy 65
A Boat of Her Own&Mabel Louise Robinson 72
Stars&Sara Teasdale 84
Night&Sara Teasdale 84
Headline Hero&B.J.Chute 85
The Farm Boy&Katherine Atherton Grimes 97
Jam Session at Abby's&Helen C.Gregutt 98
Family Council&Frank B.Gilbreth and Ernestine Carey 105
TAKING STOCK 111
READER'S DIVIDEND 112
UNIT 3 Outdoor Life 115
Secret of Coon Castle&Paul Annixter 117
Dog at Night&Louis Untermeyer 127
Coyote Cunning&Lewis Nordyke 128
Swift Things Are Beautiful&Elizabeth Coatsworth 135
Wilderness Rivers&Elizabeth Coatsworth 136
Uncle George and the Doodle-Wimpus&W.T.Person 138
The Green Match&E.Waldo Long 148
Bears for the Zoo,a picture article&Walter Havighurst 159
Tides&Rachel Field 163
The Black Stallion and the Red Mare&Gladys Francis Lewis 164
HAULING IN THE NET 171
BOOKS YOU WILL LIKE 172
UNIT 4 This Is America 175
A BIG COUNTRY 177
Which America?&William Ludwig 177
A BEAUTIFUL LAND 183
Georgia&Stephen Vincent Benét 183
Vermont&Sarah N.Cleghorn 184
Corn&Lalia Mitchell Thornton 186
Sunset:St.Louis&Sara Teasdale 188
Here Lies Texas&John Randolph 189
The Mountains Are a Lonely Folk&Hamlin Garland 192
Desert Noon&Elizabeth Coatsworth 194
Wonderlands,U.S.A.,a picture article&C.Lester Walker 195
A FRIENDLY PEOPLE 199
Good Neighbors All 199
Stephen's First Week&Eva Knox Evans 202
A BUSY NATION 209
The Makers of Speed&Carl Sandburg 209
Crossing&Philip Booth 210
Song of the Truck&Doris Frankel 212
Bulldozer&Stephen W.Meader 213
I Hear America Singing&Walt Whitman 221
A FAITH IN THE FUTURE 222
Father of the Rocket&Milton A.Rothman 222
America the Beautiful&Katharine Lee Bates 231
SURVEYING YOUR INHERITANCE 232
A SHELF OF BOOKS 232
UNIT 5 Builders of America 235
Young Ike&Delos W.Lovelace 237
Washington&Nancy Byrd Turner 245
Thomas Jefferson&Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Benét 246
Abe Lincoln's Other Mother&Bernadine Bailey 248
Daniel Boone&James Daugherty 258
The Boy Who Wouldn't Quit&Honoré Willsie Morrow 259
A Nation Remembers,a picture article&Esther Forbes 263
Barnum's First Circus&Laura Benét 270
The Voice of the Wizard&Erik Barnouw 278
PASSING IN REVIEW 289
GOOD READING 290
UNIT 6 Great Moments in Our History 293
The Admiral and the News&William Morwood 295
"Remember the Alamo!"a picture article&J.Frank Dobie 299
Paul Revere's Ride&Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 308
Concord Hymn&Ralph Waldo Emerson 313
Let Freedom Ring&Dorothy Canfield Fisher 314
The Star-Spangled Banner&Francis Scott Key 322
The Oregon Trail&Arthur Guiterman 324
The Pony Express&Mark Twain 327
How I Learned to Fly&Orville Wright 330
New Mexico:1945&Hugh Hildreth Skilling 338
RELATING THE PAST TO THE PRESENT 344
ADDING TO YOUR LIBRARY 344
UNIT 7 Legends and Tall Tales 347
They Have Yarns&Carl Sandburg 349
Paul Bunyan 352
Strong but Quirky&Irwin Shapiro 356
Clementine 360
Joe Magarac&Katherine B.Shippen 362
Johnny Appleseed&Anne Malcolmson 365
Casey Jones 372
Pecos Bill&Olive Beaupré Miller 374
ROUNDING UP THE BIG ONES 381
RELAX AND ENJOY 382
UNIT 8 Americans and the World 385
Yes,Your Honesty&George and Helen Waite Papashvily 387
So I'm Home Again&Amelia Elizabeth Walden 394
The Statue of Liberty&Emma Lazarus 404
Each Had His Gift&Franklin K.Lane 406
Camel Boy&Louise A.Stinetorf 408
Miracle in India&Arthur Goodfriend 414
The Strangest Railroad on Earth&Gordon Gaskill 420
American Campus on the Bosporus,a picture article&Josephine Felts 431
Windows for the Crown Prince&Elizabeth Gray Vining 435
GETTING THE PROPER FOCUS 443
THE WORLD OF BOOKS 444
UNIT 9 Being a Good American 447
Yogi's Dark Horse&Howard M.Brier 449
Bright Land&Walter Havighurst 459
Puppies for Seeing Eye,a picture article&Merrill Pollack 467
Two'Mericana Men&Thomas A.Daly 471
A Million Pennies for Dr.Kate&Albert Q.Maisel 472
The Strangers That Came to Town&Ambrose Flack 479
The House by the Side of the Road&Sam Walter Foss 491
It Is Not an Easy Thing 493
BROADENING YOUR HORIZON 496
FOR ADDED PLEASURE 496
UNIT 10 Treasures from Our Heritage 499
FAMOUS NARRATIVES 501
Huck Finn's Disguise&Mark Twain 501
Casey at the Bat&Ernest Lawrence Thayer 509
The Hunt for Old Slewfoot&Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 512
The Pied Piper of Hamelin&Robert Browning 524
Lochinvar&Sir Walter Scott 532
Rip Van Winkle&Washington Irving 534
FAVORITE SONGS 547
The Erie Canal 547
Home on the Range 548
The Old Chisholm Trail 550
Auld Lang Syne&Robert Burns 551
Go Down,Moses 551
The Marines'Hymn 552
CHANGING MOODS 554
In School Days&John Greenleaf Whittier 554
A Vagabond Song&Bliss Carman 556
O Come,Let Us Sing Unto the Lord 556
The Daffodils&William Wordsworth 557
In Flanders Fields&John McCrae 558
I Never Saw a Moor&Emily Dickinson 558
Do You Fear the Wind?&Hamlin Garland 559
TRIBUTES TO AMERICA 560
The Man Without a Country&Edward Everett Hale 560
Sail On,O Ship of State!&Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 577
Old Ironsides&Oliver Wendell Holmes 578
O Captain!My Captain!&Walt Whitman 580
America for Me&Henry van Dyke 581
A STORY OF LIFE OR DEATH 583
The Lady or the Tiger?&Frank R.Stockton 583
A CELEBRATED AMERICAN ROMANCE 590
The Courtship of Miles Standish&Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 590
STAKING OUT YOUR CLAIM 615
READER'S CHOICE 615
A HANDBOOK OF DEVELOPMENTAL READING SKILLS 618
Introduction:How Efficient Is Your Reading? 618
1.Figuring Out Strange Words 619
2.Getting the Main Idea:Paragraph Topics 622
3.Reading for Details 625
4.Seeing and Listening As You Read 628
5.How Words Can Influence You 631
6.Reading Figurative Language 633
7.Reading Tables,Graphs,and Charts 636
8.Getting Acquainted with Magazines 641
ANSWERS:Word Study Exercises 646
DICTIONARY 647
INDEX:Types of Literature 656
INDEX:Authors and Titles 658
INDEX:Reading Skills and Word Study Programs 660
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 662