Literature Connections

The Holt McDougal Library includes a mix of fiction, nonfiction, drama, poetry, and biographies from a variety of reading levels for use as part of classroom curriculum or independent reading. Students will find selections they love in this extensive collection. [Pygmalion]: flower girl is transformed into princess : play / by Bernard Shaw -- Story of Pygmalion from The metamorphoses : a sculptor falls in love with the statue he creates : poem / by Ovid ; translated by Rolfe Humphries -- Excerpt from My fair lady : a musical version of Pygmalion : play / by Alan Jay Lerner -- Her first ball : she could have danced all night : short story / by Katherine Mansfield -- The London language from The story of English : what is cockney? : essay / by Robert McCrum, William Cran, and Robert Mac Neil -- Mother tongue : a fiction writer and the language that nurtured her : essay / by Amy Tan -- Two words : a story about language and power : short story / by Isabel Allende ; translated by Alberto Manguel -- The model : what lies behind the artist's gaze? : short story / by Bernard Malamud -- Words : in defense of bad grammar : poem / by Vern Rutsala.

[Ethan Frome]( / Edith Wharton -- The painted door / Sinclair Ross -- Desert places / Robert Frost -- The snow man / Wallace Stevens -- Confessions of a hypochondriac / Barbara Graham -- Adventure / Sherwood Anderson -- Mirage / Christina Rossetti -- Dreams / marie G. Lee.

[Crucible]/ Arthur Miller Conversation with an American writer / Yevgeny Yevtushenko Guilt / Clifford Lindsey Alderman How to spot a witch / Adam Goodheart [Young Goodman Brown]/ Nathaniel Hawthorne Great Fear / J. Ronald Oakley Justice Denied in Massachusetts / Edna St. Vincent Millay Very Proper Gander / James Thurber Piece of String / Guy de Maupassant

Julius Caesar / play by William Shakespeare -- Life of Caesar / biography by Suetonius; translated by Robert Graves -- Epitaph on a tyrant / poem by W.H. Auden -- News flash: political assassinations / news report by Tom Wicker -- Back there / television play by Rod Serling -- For Malcolm, a year after / poem by Etheridge Knight -- Eulogy to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. / speech by Robert F. Kennedy -- Agony of victory / feature article by William Oscar Johnson -- Tiger who would be king / fable by James Thurber.

Scarlet letter / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Muddy brains / John Dunton -- from The Classics reclassified / Richard Armour -- Respectable woman / Kate Chopin -- Selected poems by Emily Dickinson / -- Psalms 32:1-5 / King David -- [Lottery]( / Shirley Jackson -- Concerns raised on "Scarlet letter" for drunk drivers / Toni Locy.

Contains: The tragedy of Romeo and Juliet / William Shakespeare -- from Twisted tales from Shakespeare / Richard Armour -- Love / Takasaki Masakaze -- Invitation to love / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- The wooing of Ariadne / Harry Mark Petrakis -- from A Natural history of love / Diane Ackerman -- Romeo and Juliet in Sarajevo / John Zaritsky.

[Where the Red Fern Grows]( : novel / by Wilson Rawls Lob's girl : short story / by Joan Aiken Luke Baldwin's vow : short story / by Morley Callaghan Old dog : poem / by William Stafford The grip : poem / by Brendan Kennelly Friends of the Hunted : article / by Ryland Loos - Why they quit: thoughts from ex-hunters : article / by Dena Jones Jolma Two dreamers : short story / by Gary Soto.

An ocean voyage of unimaginable consequences... Not every thirteen-year-old girl is accused of murder, brought to trial, and found guilty. But I was just such a girl, and my story is worth relating even if it did happen years ago. Be warned, however: If strong ideas and action offend you, read no more. Find another companion to share your idle hours. For my part I intend to tell the truth as I lived it. Contains: The true confessions of Charlotte Doyle / Avi -- Seafaring women: Mary Patten from Seafaring Women / Linda Grant De Pauw -- from Two years before the mast / Richard Henry Dana -- Walking the trestle / Jay Parini -- The princess and the admiral / Charlotte Pomerantz -- This morning there were rainbows in the sprinklers / Lorna Dee Cervantes.

Contains: [Adventures of Huckleberry Finn]( Mark Twain -- from Life on the Mississippi / Mark Twain -- The Negro speaks of rivers / Langston Hughes -- Narrative of Daniel Fisher / Daniel Fisher -- Three days of forest, a river, free / Rita Dove -- The outlaws / Selma Lagerlöf -- from Nine pounds of luggage / Maud Parrish -- Freedom / William Stafford -- from Mississippi solo / Eddy Harris.