SRA McGraw-Hill

Includes Excerpts from:
(Country Life)
- Ox-Cart Man by Donald Hall
- A Revolution Comes to the Country by Karen E. Sapp
- Heartland by Diane Siebert
- Filling the Ice-House from Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Cows in the Parlor: A Visit to a Dairy Farm by Cynthia McFarland
- Fine Art: Year 1860, Year 1940, Husking Bee, Island of Nantucket, Country Store, Alabama, Sugar Cane
- Growing Up Amish by Joan Ennis
- Just Plain Fancy by Patricia Polacco
- Potato Vacation by Mary Stolz
- What Ever show more Happened to the Baxter Place? by Pat Ross
- How Does the Garden Grow? by Lise Gunby
- The Country Mouse and the City Mouse by Aesop

(City Wildlife)
- The Boy Who Didn't Believe in Spring by Lucille Clifton
- City Lots: Living Things in Vacant Spots by Phyllis S. Busch
- Linnea's Almanac: January by Christina Bjork
- Fly High, Fly Low by Don Freeman
- Urban Roosts: Where Birds Nest in the City by Barbara Bash
- The Worm by Lilian Moore
- Pigeons by Raymond Souster
- Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey
- Fine Art: Boston Common at Twilight, Lunch in the Gardens
- City Superheroes by Ethan Herberman
- Raccoon by Mary Ann Hoberman
- City Critters by Richard Chevat
- Sunflowers for Tina by Anne Norris Baldwin

(Storytelling)
- A Story, A Story told by Gail E. Haley
- Johnny Appleseed by Steven Kellogg
- A Tale of the Brothers Grimm by Terry Fertig
- Worlds I Know by Myra Cohn Livingston
- Carving the Pole by Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith
- Oral history by T. Marie Kryst
- Aunt Flossie's Hats (and Crab Cakes Later) by Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard
- The Keeping Quilt by Patricia Polacco
- Fine Art: Pueblo Storyteller, Bayeux Tapestry, Member of Parliament and the Medjeles
- Aunt Sue's Stories by Langston Hughes
- Memory by Mary O'Neill
- Past by Arnold Adoff
- The Wall by Eve Bunting
- Home Place by Crescent Dragonwagon show less

Includes excerpts from:
(Friendship)
- Gloria Who Might Be My Best Friend by Ann Cameron
- Beauty and the Beast
- Angel Child, Dragon Child by Michele Maria Surat
- Stevie by John Steptoe
- Janey by Charlotte Zolotow
- Priscilla, Meet Felicity by Kathleen Leverich
- The Tree House by Lois Lowry
- Clancy's Coat by Eve Bunting
- Fine Art: Conjunction, Children Had Few Toys, The Good Friends
- The Legend of Damon and Pythias by Fan Kissen
- How Dog Outwitted Leopard told by Verna Aardema
- Teammates by show more Peter Golenbock

(Imagination)
- The Blind Men and the Elephant told by John Godfrey Saxe
- Through Grandpa's Eyes by Patricia MacLachlan
- The Apple by Arnold Adoff
- Houses by Aileen Fisher
- Fog by Carl Sandburg
- The Cat Who Became a Poet by Margaret Mahy
- Picasso by Mike Venezia
- Fine Art: Cow Triptych, The Sun of Paris, Time Transfixed, The Desk July 1st 1984
- The Incredible Leonardo Da Vinci by Robert Ross and Martin Woodhouse
- Roxaboxen by Alice McLerran
- It Could Always Be Worse told by Margot Zemach
- The Bremen Town Musicians by the Brothers Grimm
- Two Big Ears from Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder

(Money)
- A New Coat for Anna by Harriet Ziefert
- Money, Money, Money by Ruth Belov Gross
- The Musical Palm Tree by Robert Barry
- Kids in Business from National Geographic World
- Alexander, Who Used to be Rich Last Sunday by Judith Viorst
- Four Dollars and Fifty Cents by Eric A. Kimmel
- Fine Art: 80 Two-Dollar Bills, The Money Lender and His Wife
- Smart by Shel Silverstein
- Tony and the Quarter by Jack Prelutsky
- The Cobbler's Song by Jean de La Fontaine
- The Golden Touch, a Greek myth show less

Includes excerpts from:
(Surviving)
- Arctic Explorer: The Story of Matthew Henson by Jeri Ferris
- Nachito's Teachings from Medicine Walk by Ardath Mayhar
- Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
- McBroom and the Big Wind by Sid Fleischman
- The Grasshopper by David McCord
- The Big Wave by Pearl S. Buck
- Solitude by A.A. Milne
- The Cage by Ruth Minsky Sender
- Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by B.M. Mooyaart-Doubleday
- Music and Slavery by Wiley
- Many Thousand Gone, a spiritual
- Walk show more Together Children, a spiritual
- Fine Art: The Old Plantation, Voyagers in a Snowdrift on Mount Tarrar, Choctaw Removal

(Technology)
- The Wonders of the Pyramids from Science in Ancient Egypt by Geraldine Woods
- The Great Wall of China by Leonard Everett Fisher
- You Never Can Tell told by Janice Holland
- The Workhorse from Once Upon a Horse by Suzanne Jurmain
- The Wonderful Machine from Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Thrashin' Time by David Weitzman
- Going for the Doctor from Black Beauty by Anna Sewall
- The Messenger from Once Upon a Horse by Suzanne Jurmain
- Fine Art: The Tower of Babel, The Race Horse
- George Stephenson by Norman Wymer
- Progress by Edith Agnew
- Harvey and Higgins Incorporated by Alice Dalgliesh

(Colonial Life)
- Early America by Trevor Matheney
- Jamestown: First Permanent English Settlement in America by Dennis B. Fradin
- Pocahontas by Dennis B. Fradin
- First Conflicts and Sharp Beginnings by Duane Damon
- The Voyage of the Mayflower by Patricia M. Whalen
- The Massachusetts Colony by Dennis B. Fradin
- The Early Houses by Barbara L. Beck
- Joliet and Marquette Discover The Mississippi
- Judith: The Life of a Slave by Cathleene Hellier and Brandon Miller
- Freedom by Langston Hughes
- Phillis Wheatley: Poet by Susan Altman
- Paul Cuffe by Karen Sapp
- Life in Philadelphia by Dennis B. Fradin
- Fine Art: Battle of Bunker's Hill
- The Fighting Ground by Avi show less

a fun book giving stories and rhymes for each of the letters in the alphabet
1 large book