ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Unit 1
“Flash Flood” by William M. Hendryx, reprinted with permission from the
November 2004 Reader’s Digest. Copyright © 2004 by the Reader’s Digest
Assn., Inc.
“Paddling Dicey Waters” by Lew Freedman. The Chicago Tribune, June 5,
- Copyright 6/5/2005, Chicago Tribune Company. All rights reserved.
Used by permission.
From “Seventh Grade” from Baseball in April and Other Stories, copyright
© 1990 by Gary Soto, reprinted by permission of Harcourt, Inc.
“Where You Are” from The Invention of New Jersey by Jack Anderson,
© 1969. Reprinted by permission of the University of Pittsburgh Press.
“Message of Hope” by Ericka Sóuter and Dietlind Lerner. From People,
February 7, 2005.
“Teaching Nepalis to Read, Plant and Vote” by Lesley Reed, excerpts from
FACES’ April 2005 issue: Nepal, copyright © 2005, Carus Publishing
Company, published by Cobblestone Publishing, 30 Grove Street, Suite C,
Peterborough, NH 03458. All rights reserved. Used by permission of the
publisher.
“May I Have Your Autograph?” by Marjorie Sharmat. Reprinted by permission
of the author.
“Suzy and Leah” by Jane Yolen. Copyright © 1993 by Jane Yolen. Originally
published by American Girl Magazine. Reprinted by permission of Curtis
Brown, Ltd.
From How Things Work by the Editors of Consumer Guide.® Copyright ©
1990 by Publications International, Ltd.
“Summer Reading” from Paper Trail by Michael Dorris. Copyright © 1994 by
Michael Dorris. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
“The First Book,” from On the Bus With Rosa Parks, W.W. Norton & Co.
© 1999 by Rita Dove. Reprinted with permission of the author.
“The Day It Rained Cockroaches” from The Pigman & Me by Paul Zindel.
Copyright © 1991 by Paul Zindel.
Unit 2
“Tony Hawk: Chairman of the Board” by Steve Pittman. From SPORTS
ILLUSTRATED FOR KIDS Books. Copyright © 2001 by Time Inc.
From Rosa Parks: My Story by Rosa Parks with Jim Haskins, copyright
© 1992 by Rosa Parks. Used by permission of Dial Books for Young Readers,
A Division of Penguin Young Readers Group, A Member of Penguin Group
(USA) Inc., 345 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10014. All rights reserved.
“Kids in Action: Dalie Jimenez” excerpted from The Kid’s Guide to Social
Action: How to Solve the Social Problems You Choose—and Turn Creative
Thinking into Positive Action (Revised, Expanded, Updated Edition) by
Barbara A. Lewis © 1998. Used with permission from Free Spirit Publishing
Inc., Minneapolis, MN; 1-866-703-7322; http://www.freespirit.com. All rights
reserved.
“An Hour with Abuelo” from An Island Like You: Stories of the Barrio by
Judith Ortiz Cofer. Published by Orchard Books/Scholastic Inc. Copyright ©
1995 by Judith Ortiz Cofer. Reprinted by permission.
“Toward a Rainbow Nation” by Lavendhri Pillay. From No More Strangers
Now: Young Voices from a New South Africa, interviews by Tim McKee.
Copyright © 1998 by Timothy Saunders McKee.
“New Directions” from Wouldn’t Take Nothing For My Journey Now by Maya
Angelou, copyright © 1993 by Maya Angelou. Used by permission of Random
House, Inc.
“The War of the Wall” from Deep Sightings and Rescue Missions by Toni Cade
Bambara, copyright © 1996 by The Estate of Toni Cade Bambara. Used by
permission of Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc.
“The Liberation Army Dancer” from Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural
Revolution by Ji Li Jiang, copyright © 1997 by Ji Li Jiang. Forward copyright
© 1997 by HarperCollins Publishers. Used by permission of HarperCollins
Publishers.
“Miracle Hands” by Christina Cheakalos and Matt Birkbeck, updated 2007
from © Time Inc.
From Barrio Boy by Ernesto Galarza. Copyright © 1971 by the University of
Notre Dame Press: Notre Dame, Indiana. Reprinted by permission of the
publisher.
“How I Learned English” by Gregory Djanikian. Reprinted by permission of
the author.
“Graduation Address” by Robert Fontaine, from The Big Book of Skits,
© 1996 and Plays, the Drama Magazine for Young People © May 2001,
reprinted with the permission of the publishers Plays/Sterling Partners, Inc.,
PO Box 600160, Newton, MA 02460.Unit 3
“Broken Chain” from Baseball in April and Other Stories, copyright © 1990
by Gary Soto. Reprinted by permission of Harcourt, Inc.
“Friendships and Peer Pressure” from Teen Health, copyright © 2005 by
Glencoe/McGraw-Hill.
“Amigo Brothers” by Piri Thomas. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Framed” from Six-Minute Mysteries by Don Wulffson. Copyright © 1994 by
RGA Publishing Group, Inc.
“Loser” from The Girl in the Flammable Skirt by Aimee Bender, copyright
© 1998 by Aimee Bender. Used by permission of Doubleday, a division of
Random House, Inc.
“Friends Forever” by Sari Locker. Updated 2005 from Teen People, May 19,
19 9 8.
“The Good Samaritan” from Finding Our Way by Rene Saldana, Jr., copyright
© 2003 by Rene Saldana, Jr. Used by permission of Random House Children’s
Books, a division of Random House, Inc.
“The Brink’s Robbery” from The Wild Side: Crime and Punishment. Copyright
© 2001 by NTC/Contemporary Publishing Group, Inc.
“Lob’s Girl” from A Whisper in the Night by Joan Aiken. Delacorte Press.
Copyright © 1984 by Joan Aiken Enterprises, Ltd. Used by permission of
Brandt & Hochman Literary Agents, Inc.
“Home” from Maud Martha, by Gwendolyn Brooks. Copyright © 1991 by
Gwendolyn Brooks Blakely. Reprinted by consent of Brooks Permission.R76 Acknowledgments