How to Structure Your Reading.
PART I.
Thinking: Getting Started.
1. A Real Loss, Fern Kupfer.
2. The Death of a Farm, Amy Jo Keifer.
3. Tyranny of Weakness, Eda LeShan.
4. Darkness at Noon, Harold Krents.
5. My World Now, Anna Mae Halgrim Seaver.
6. My Mother's Blue Bowl, Alice Walker.
PART II.
Thinking: Getting Started.
7. Summer, Jonathan Schwartz (short story).
8. My Father, the No-Show, Quassan T. Castro.
9. The Girl with the Large Eyes, Julius Lester (folk tale).
10. You Are How You Eat, Enid Nemy.
11. Flour Children, Lexine Alpert.
12. The Magic Words Are, "Will You Help Me?" Michael Ryan.
PART III.
Thinking: Getting Started.
13. Genes and Behavior: A Twin Legacy, Constance Holden.
14. Every Kid Needs Some Manual Arts, William Raspberry.
15. Richard Cory, All Over Again, Roy Meador; Richard Cory, Edward Arlington Robinson (poem).
16. Escaping the Daily Grind for Life as a House Father, Rick Greenberg.
17. A New Dawn, Sam Moses.
18. Out of Their Element, Bob Akin.
PART IV.
Thinking: Getting Started.
19. Terror at Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard.
20. Should a Wife Keep Her Name? Norman Lobsenz.
21. Restored to the Sea, Robin Micheli.
22. I Became Her Target, Roger Wilkins
23. She Made Her Dream Come True, Michael Ryan.
24. The Babies of Bedford, Jean Harris.
PART V.
Thinking: Getting Started.
25. How to Stay Alive, Art Hoppe.
26. Houses to Save the Earth, Seth Shulman.
27. Magnetism, Abraham Marcus and Charles M. Thomson.
28. Long-Term Memory, Joseph Calkin and Richard S. Perrotto.
29. A Personal Stress Survival Guide, Diana Hales
30. The Chaser, John Collier.
Progress Charts.
Guide to Dictionary Use.
Vocabulary Index.
General Index.
