The Glencoe literature library

When the freighter on which they are traveling is torpedoed by a German submarine during World War II, an adolescent white boy, blinded by a blow on the head, and an old black man are stranded on a tiny Caribbean island where the boy acquires a new kind of vision, courage, and love from his old companion.

Gulliver's travels / Jonathan Swift The second voyage of Sindbad the Sailor / N.J. Dawood, translator A tourist's guide to the moon / Isaac Asimov Escapist - Never / Robert Frost To the not impossible him / Edna St. Vincent Millay The very short history of Nunavut / William T. Vollmann Sur / Ursula K. Le Guin

For use in teaching literature to high school students. Miep Gies, her husband, and a few loyal friends hid the Frank family from the Nazis for more than two years. Here she recounts her own childhood as a refugee during World War I, the daily risks she took while hiding and supporting the Franks, and the moment she handed Otto Frank his daughter's diary. It is a stirring and honest account and an important document of the struggle for human rights.

After the death of the beloved aunt who has raised her, twelve-year-old Summer and her uncle Ob leave their West Virginia trailer in search of the strength to go on living.

[A tale of two cities]( / Charles Dickens -- Outline of the Revolution (historical nonfiction) / John Elliot -- from A tale of two cities: Dickens's revolutionary novel (literary criticism) / Ruth Glancy -- The details of life (social history) / Olivier Bernier -- Letter to Madame Elizabeth of France (letter) / Marie-Antoinette -- The heirs of Madame Guillotine (magazine article) / David Lawday.

Angry and humiliated when his sharecropper father is jailed for stealing food for his family, a young black boy grows in courage and understanding by learning to read and through his relationship with his devoted dog Sounder.

For use in teaching literature to high school students.