from Stories of the Gods and. Heroes by Sally Benson Myths are the wonderful tales that people long ago told about their gods and heroes---tales that still fascinate people today. Here are two Greek...
How It Snowed Fur and Rained Fry Cakes in Western Virginia
from The Remarkable History of Tony Beaver--- West Virginian by Mary E. Gober This story is a special kind of American folk tale called a tall tale. Tall tales are a lot of fun because they are full...
Macavity: The Mystery Cat
by T. S. Eliot Macavity's a Mystery Cat: he's called the Hidden Paw--- For he's the master criminal who can defy the Law. He's the bafflement of Scotland Yard, the Flying Squad's despair: For when...
The Homecoming
> \ from Sounder by William H. Armstrong Sounder, a fine coon dog, was shot when the sheriff arrested his master. His wounds have healed, but he is badly crippled. With the care of the boy---his...
Jabberwocky
by Lewis Carroll 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. "Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that...
The Boy Who Became a Wizard
from A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin Earthsea is an imaginary world made up entirely of islands. On one of these, the island of Gont, lives the boy Duny. Duny longs to be a mage, or...
The Nineteenth-Moon-of-Neptune Beasts
by X. J. Kennedy > Who lives on Neptune's nineteenth moon? > > How are its ski conditions? > > Oh, why have we never heard one word From the previous expeditions? > > We skim low for a look...
I Leave the Island
from Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell The book from which this story is taken is based on historical facts. When a ship comes to take a small band of Indians to the mainland,...
A New Way
from Toolmaker by Jill Paton Walsh This story takes place many thousands of years ago, in the time called the Stone Age, when people made and used stone tools. Ra is a fine toolmaker, and his skill...
Do You Fear the Wind?
by Hamlin Garland Do you fear the force of the wind, The slash of the rain? Go face them and fight them, Be savage again. Go hungry and cold like the wolf, Go wade like the crane: The palms of...
