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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 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,...

Until I Saw the Sea

by Lilian Moore Until I saw the sea I did not know that wind could wrinkle water so. I never knew that sun could splinter a whole sea of blue. Nor did I know before, a sea breathes in and out...

A Thousand Pails of Water

by Ronald Roy Yukio lived in a village where people fished and hunted whales to make their living. Yukio's father, too, was a whale hunter. "Why do you kill the whales, Father?" Yukio asked....

The Dog and the Bone

by Aesop It so happened that a dog had a fine bone and was carrying it home to chew on in peace. On his way, he had to go across a plank over a stream. As he walked across the plank, he looked down...