> from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle > > Robin Hood was a legendary English outlaw and expert archer who robbed > the rich and gave to the poor. He and his merry band of...
The Challenge
from Sea Glass by Laurence Yep Craig is a Chinese-American boy who has lived in San Francisco's Chinatown all his life. Then, when he is in eighth grade, his family moves back to the small coastal...
I Strike the Jolly Roger
From Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson Treasure Island is one of the best adventure tales ever written. The story, which takes place in the 1700's, is told by young Jim Hawkins. After Jim...
A Stranger in the Land
from The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare All her life, Kit Tyler has lived with her wealthy grandfather on the warm, sunny island of Barbados in the West Indies. When her...
The Highwayman
by Alfred Noyes Part One The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees, The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas, The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor,...
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...
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...
