Jamestown Literature:
An Adapted Reader
Table of Contents
Jamestown Literature: An Adapted Reader, Course 1 (Grade 6)
- Priscilla and the Wimps by Richard Peck
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King of Mazy May by Jack London
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La Bamba by Gary Soto
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After You, My Dear Alphonse by Shirley Jackson
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The Game by Walter Dean Myers
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Zlateh the Goat by Isaac Singer
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Eleven by Sandra Cisneros
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The All American Slurp by Lensey Namioka
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
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Force of Luck by Rudolph Anaya
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Loo-Wit: The Firekeeper by Joseph Bruchac
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End of the World by Jenny L. Cloud
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Koko: The Smart Signing Gorilla by Jean C. George
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Mummy No. 1770 by Patricia Lauber
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The Land of Red Apples by Zitkala-Sa
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Madame C.J. Walker by Jim Haskins
Jamestown Literature: An Adapted Reader, Course 2 (Grade 7)
- The Landlady by Roald Dahl
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Lob’s Girl by Joan Aiken
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Amigo Brothers by Piri Thomas
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Broken Chain by Gary Soto
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Thank You Ma’am by Langston Hughes
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Duffy’s Jacket by Bruce Coville
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Home by Gwendolyn Brooks
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A Crush by Cynthia Rylant
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Monsters Are Due on Maple Street by Rod Serling
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Prometheus by Bernard Evslin
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Aunty Misery by Judith Ortiz Cofer
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We Are All One by Lawrence Yep
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Cochise Speech by Cochise
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Barrio Boy by Ernesto Galarza
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The Horse Snake by Huynh Quang Nhuong
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Names (Nombres) by Julia Alvarez
Jamestown Literature: An Adapted Reader, Course 3 (Grade 8)
- The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
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Stop the Sun by Gary Paulsen
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Chanclas by Sandra Cisneros
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Everybody Knows Tobie by Daniel Garza
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Raymond’s Run by Toni Cade Bambara
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Mother and Daughter by Gary Soto
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The Treasure of Lemon Brown by Walter Dean Myers
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The Medicine Bag by Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve
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The Diary of Anne Frank by Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett
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The Wise Old Woman by Yoshiko Uchida
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Racing the Great Bear by Joseph Bruchac
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Icarus and Daedalus by Josephine Preston Peabody
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The People Could Fly by Virginia Hamilton
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Thank You in Arabic by Naomi Shihab Nye
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The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln
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This We Know by Chief Seattle
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Nationally Televised Speech by President John F. Kennedy
Jamestown Literature: An Adapted Reader, Course 4 (Grade 9)
- The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe
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American History by Judith Ortiz Cofer
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The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry
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The Horned Toad by Gerald Haslam
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The Open Window by Saki
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The Scarlet Ibis by James Hurst
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The Soul Catcher by Louis Owens
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Sweet Potato Pie by Eugenia Collier
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Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
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The Odyssey by Homer
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Field Trip by Naomi Shihab Nye
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Only Daughter by Sandra Cisneros
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Of Dry Goods… by Uchida
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Black Boy by Richard Wright
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Night by Elie Wiesel
Jamestown Literature: An Adapted Reader, Course 5 (Grade 10)
- The False Gems by Guy de Maupassant
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The Boar Hunt by Jose Vasconcelos
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The Censors by Luisa Valenzuela
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Appetizer by Robert Abel
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Catch the Moon by Judith Ortiz Cofer
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A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury
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Through the Tunnel by Doris Lessing
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Marigolds by Eugenia Collier
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A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
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Le Morte d’Arthur by Thomas Malory
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Where the Girl Rescued her Brother by Joseph Bruchac & Gayle
Ross
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Yuki-Onna by Lafcadio Hearn
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The Angry Winter by Loren Eiseley
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An American Childhood by Annie Dillard
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By Any Other Name by Santha Rama Rau
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Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne & James Houston
Jamestown Literature: An Adapted Reader, American Literature
- How the World Was Made by James Moody
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The Sky Tree by Joseph Bruchac
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Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson
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The Devil and Tom Walker by Washington Irving
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The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allen Poe
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My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass
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And Ain’t I a Woman? by Sojourner Truth
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The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln
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The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin
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To Build a Fire by Jack London
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In Another Country by Ernest Hemingway
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Dust Tracks on a Road by Zora Neale Hurston
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The Rockpile by James Baldwin
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The Crucible by Arthur Miller
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Working: Roberto Acuna, Farm Worker by Studs Terkel
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Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
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Snow by Julia Alverez
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The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
Jamestown Literature: An Adapted Reader, British Literature
- Beowulf by Anonymous
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The Pardoner’s Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer
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Sonnet 116 and Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare
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Macbeth by William Shakespeare
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Paradise Lost by John Milton
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A Modest Proposal by Jonathon Swift
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The Lamb and the Tyger by William Blake
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Crossing the Bar by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
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Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen
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The Rocking Horse Winner by D.H. Lawrence
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Dead Man’s Path by Chinua Achebe
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B. Wordsworth by V. S. Naipaul
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Games at Twilight by Anita Desai
Jamestown Literature: An Adapted Reader, World Literature
- The Lion’s Awakening from Sundiata by Anonymous
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The Prisoner Who Wore Glasses by Bessie Head
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The Iliad: Achilles and Hector by Homer
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Oedipus the King by Sophocles
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Gilgamesh by Anonymous
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The Parable of the Prodigal Son from the King James Version of the
Bible
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The Qur’an: The Exordium and Daylight by Anonymous
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Hundred Questions from the Mahabharata by Anonymous
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Like the Sun by R.K. Narayan
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Tao Te Ching by Lao-tzu
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The Pillow Book by Sei Shōnagon
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The Doll’s House by Katherine Mansfield
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The Bet by Anton Chekhov
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Night by Elie Wiesel
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The Night Face Up by Julio Cortázar
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Bishop Berkeley or Mariana of the Universe by Liliana Heker
