Genres at a Glance

Fiction
• Folk Tales
  The Clever Magistrate
  Linda Fang474
• The Clever Old Woman488
• Holding Up the Sky
  tale from China588
• Historical Fiction
  Passage to Freedom
  Ken Mochizuki420
• Modern Fairy Tale
  The Three Chicharrones
  Patricia Santos Marcantonio110
• Myth
  Why the Sun and the Moon Live in the Sky
  adaptation of a Nigerian myth263
• Realistic Fiction
  American Names
  Tony Johnston6
• Short Fiction
  from The House on Mango Street
  Sandra Cisneros54
• Short Stories
  Dragon, Dragon.
  John Gardner134
• Indian Summer Sun.
  Carmen T. Bernier-Grand294
• Nadia the Willful
  Sue Alexander396

Poetry & Lyrics
• Saying Yes
  Diana Chang24
• Midway
  Naomi Long Madgett194
• Almost Evenly Divided
  Emma Suárez-Báez312
• In My Dreams
  Francisco X. Alarcón344
• Quilt
  Janet S. Wong413
• Chief Koruinka’s Song
  traditional poem from Chile414
• Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream
  Ed McCurdy460
• Argument
  Eve Merriam490
• The Star-Spangled Banner
  Francis Scott Key519
• The Flag We Love
  Pam Muñoz Ryan520
• Market Women
  Daisy Myrie568

Drama
• The Girl and the Chenoo
  Joseph Bruchac594

Nonfiction
• Afterword
  A Message from Hiroki Sugihara439
• Autobiography
  A Lion Hunt
  Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton with Herman Viola30
  

  Grasshopper on a flower in South Africa