1. “Seventh Grade”by Gary Soto

2. “All Summer in a Day”by Ray Bradbury

3. “Zoo” by Edward D. Hoch

4. “Cat on the Go” by James Herriot (narrative nonfiction)

5. “The Cat Who Thought She Was a Dog and the Dog Who Thought He Was a Cat”by Isaac Bashevis Singer

6. “Justin Lebo” by Phillip Hoosenonfiction article

7. “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street” by Rod Serling

8. “Cremation of Sam McGee” by Robert Service

9. “Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out”by Shel Silverstein

10. “The Third Level” by Jack Finney

11. “Oranges” by Gary Soto

12. “The Highwayman”by Alfred Noyes

13. “The Third Wish” by Joan Aiken

14. “After Twenty Years” by O. Henry

15. “A Boy and a Man”by James Ramsey Ullman

16. “Amigo Brothers” by Piri Thomas

17. “Papa’s Parrot” by Cynthia Rylant

18. “The Chase” fromAn American Childhood by Annie Dillard

19. Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls

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21. “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan

22. “No Gumption” by Russell Baker

23. “Burning Out at Nine?”by Nadya Labi

24. “Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allen Poe

25. fromInto Thin Air by Jon Krakauernonfiction excerpt

26. “Ribbons” by Laurence Yep

27. “The Treasure of Lemon Brown” by Walter Dean Myers

28. “Miracles” by Walt Whitman

29. “Mother to Son” by Langston Hughes

30. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer