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Unit 7: Modern America Emerges

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A Better Way by Mike Clary
A Boy and His Dog by Martha Brooks
A Crush by Cynthia Rylant
A Dictionary of Japanese-American Terms by R.A. Sasaki
A Minor Bird by Robert Frost
A Mother in Mannville by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
a poem (for langston hughes) by Nikki Giovanni
A Time to Talk; Fire and Ice; Dust of Snow by Robert Frost
After Twenty Years by O. Henry
Almost Ready Arnold Adoff
Americans All by Michael Dorris
Amigo Brothers by Piri Thomas
Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe
Antaeus by Borden Deal
April Rain Song by Langston Hughes
Arithmetic by Carl Sandburg
Aunt Millicent by Mary Steele
Baker's Bluejay Yarn by Mark Twain
Becky and the Wheels-and-Brake Boys by James Berry
Between What I See and What I Say; Entre Lo Que Veo Y Digo by Octavio Paz
Beware of the Dog by Roald Dahl
Birdfoot's Grampa by Joseph Bruchac
Birthday Box by Jane Yolen
Broken Chain by Gary Soto
Bums in the Attic by Sandra Cisneros
Casey at the Bat by Ernest Lawrence Thayer
Chanclas by Sandra Cisneros
Charles by Shirley Jackson
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl, adapted by Richard R. George
Concha by Mary Helen Ponce
Daydreamers by Eloise Greenfield
Dinner Together by Diana Rivera
Dreams by Langston Hughes
Eleven by Sandra Cisneros
Face It byJanet S. Wong
Finding America by A. C. Greene
Fish Cheeks Amy Tan
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Forgotten Language by Shel Silverstein
from All but My Life by Gerda Weissman Klein
from Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
from Barrio Boy by Ernesto Galarza
from Beyond the Limits by Stacy Allison
from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
from Letters from Rifka by Karen Hesse
from Little by Little by Jean Little
from On the Road with Charles Kuralt by Charles Kuralt
from Rosa Parks: My Story by Rosa Parks
from Sound-Shadows of the New World by Ved Mehta
from The Lost Garden by Laurence Yep
from The People, Yes by Carl Sandburg
from Volcano by Patricia Lauber
from Wait Till Next Year by Doris Kearns Goodwin
from Woodsong by Gary Paulsen
Future Tense by Robert Lipsyte
Golden Glass by Alma Luz Villanueva
Hollywood and the Pits by Cherylene Lee
Home by Gwendolyn Brooks
Homeless by Anna Quindlen
How I Learned English by Gregory Djanikian
Hurricanes by Patricia Lauber
I Have a Dream by Martin Luther King Jr.
Identity by Julio Noboa Polanco
I'll Walk the Tightrope by Margaret Danner
In a Neighborhood in Los Angeles/ En un Barrio de Los Angeles by Francisco X. Alarcon
in Just— by E.E. Cummings
In the Middle of a Pitch by Bill Meissner
Key Item by Isaac Asimov
Knoxville, Tennessee by Nikki Giovanni
Koko: Smart Signing Gorilla by Jean Craighead George
La Bamba by Gary Soto
Last Cover by Paul Annixter
Legacies by Nikki Giovanni
Life Doesn't Frighten Me by Maya Angelou
Loo-Wit by Wendy Rose
Miracles by Walt Whitman
Mother and Daughter by Gary Soto
Mother to Son by Langston Hughes
M'su Carencro and Mangeur de Poulet by J. J. Reneaux
My Two Dads by Marie G. Lee
Names/Nombres by Julia Alvarez
New Directions by Maya Angelou
No News retold by Connie Regan-Blake and Barbara Freeman
Oh Broom, Get To Work by Yoshiko Uchida
old age sticks by E.E. Cummings
One by James Berry
Pecos Bill by Mary Pope Osborne
President Cleveland, Where Are You? by Robert Cormier
Primer Lesson by Carl Sandburg
Priscilla and the Wimps by Richard Peck
Raymond's Run by Toni Cade Bambara
Satchel Paige by Bill Littlefield
Shoes for Hector by Nicholasa Mohr
Slam, Dunk, & Hook by Yusef Komunyakaa
Sorrow Home and Sit-ins by Margaret Walker
Sorry, Right Number by Stephen King
Southbound on the Freeway by May Swenson
Stop the Sun by Gary Paulsen
Strong Men Weep by Benedict Cosgrove
Thank You in Arabic by Naomi Shihab Nye
Thank You, M'am by Langston Hughes
the 1st by Lucille Clifton
The All-American Slurp by Lensey Namioka
The Anne Frank House: Amsterdam by Joan LaBombard
The Bat by Theodore Roethke
The Bird Like No Other by Dorothy West
The Black Walnut Tree by Mary Oliver
The Boy and His Grandfather by Rudolfo A. Anaya
The Bunyans by Audrey Wood
The Circuit by Francisco Jiménez
The Courage That My Mother Had by Edna St. Vincent Millay
The Cremation of Sam McGee by Robert Service
The Diary of Anne Frank by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett
The Dog Diaries by Merrill Markoe
The Fish Crisis by J. Madeleine Nash
The Gold Cadillac by Mildred D. Taylor
The Journey by Patricia Preciado Martin
The Kid Nobody Could Handle by Kurt Vonnegut
The King of Mazy May by Jack London
The Land of Red Apples by Zitkala-Sa
the lesson of the moth by Don Marquis
The Medicine Bag by Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve
The Million-Pound Bank Note by Mark Twain
The Moustache by Robert Cormier
The Naming of Cats by T.S. Eliot
The Night the Bed Fell by James Thurber
The Old Demon by Pearl S. Buck
The Pasture by Robert Frost
The Pinta, the Nina, and the Santa Maria; and many other cargoes of Light by John Tagliabue
The Sand Castle by Alma Luz Villanueva
The Scholarship Jacket by Marta Salinas
The Sidewalk Racer or On the Skateboard by Lillian Morrison
The Southpaw by Judith Viorst
The Summer of Vietnam by Barbara Renaud González
The Teacher Who Changed My Life by Nicholas Gage
The Treasure of Lemon Brown by Walter Dean Myers
The White Umbrella by Gish Jen
The Woman in the Snow by Patricia C. McKissack
The Women's 400 Meters by Lillian Morrison
To James by Frank Horne
To Young Readers by Gwendolyn Brooks
Turkeys by Bailey White
Whatif by Shel Silverstein
Who's on First? by Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
Without Commericials by Alice Walker
Your World by Georgia Douglas Johnson