"All-Ball" by Mary Pope Osborne
"Everything Will Be Okay" by James Howe
"A Bag of Oranges" by Spiro Athanas (symbol)
"American History" by Judith Ortiz-Cofer
"Everything Will Be Okay" by James Howe
"A Bag of Oranges" by Spiro Athanas (symbol)
"American History" by Judith Ortiz-Cofer
"Am I Blue?" by Bruce Coville
"Blonde" by Katherine Min
"Blonde" by Katherine Min
"The Body Politic" by Theodore Weesner
"Cracklin' Day" by Peter Abrahams"The Dress" by Louise Erdrich
"Economics" by Elizabeth Seydel Morgan
"The Flowers" by Alice Walker (symbol)
"The First Day" by Edward P. Jones
"Grand Stand-In"by Kevin Wilson
"The Grave" by Katherine Anne Porter
"Guns for Geeks" by Chris Crutcher
"Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
"Hearing Flower" by M.E. Kerr
"Hiding" from Monkeys by Susan Minot
"How the Nurse Feels" by Greg Changnon"How Far She Went" by Mary Hood
"Jacob's Chicken" by Milos Macourek
"The Jacket" by Gary Soto (symbol)
"Jeremy Goldblatt is So Not Moses" by James Howe
"The Kind of Light That Shines on Texas" by Reginald McKnight
"The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson
"Marigolds" by Eugenia Collier
"Norma" by Sonia Sanchez
"Paradise of Bombs" by Scott Russell Sanders (2 classes)
"Picky Eater" by Stephen Roos
"Raymond's Run" by Toni Cade Bambara
"Slipping Away" by Jaqueline Woodson
"Spear" by Julius Lester
"Sucker" by Carson McCullers
"The Stone Boy" by Gina Berriault
"The Time Capsule" by Ellen Gilchrist
"The Veldt" by Ray Bradbury
"To Hell With Dying" by Alice Walker
"We Don't Have Suits" by Greg Changnon
"What Means Switch?" by Gish Jen
"What We Save"* by Julie Orringer
"Where is it Written?" by Adam Schwartz
"Why I Live at the P.O." by Eudora Welty
"A Worn Path" by Eudora Welty
Excerpt from The Floating World by Cynthia Kadohata
