Description: Houghton Mifflin Action Series (Readers) – Encounters, Cross Currents; Challenges and Forces (1970) (4 readers).Collectors item!! Multicultural Readers with Langston Hughes, Mark Twain, Rod Sterling, Sammy Davis Jr. and Emily Dickinson.Estimated Grade Level 7-12Condition Good#1 Encounters. (115 pages)Editors: Harvey R. Granite, Millard Black, Virginia F. Lewis and Jo M. Stanchfield. Contents: The Parsley Garden by William Saroyan, Thank you, M’am by Langston Hughes, The Pocket Book Game by Alice Childress, Final Curve by Langston Hughes, I heard a knock on the door by Claude Brown, A summer’s reading by Bernard Malamud, Precious Words by Emily Dickinson, My Father Goes to Court by Carlos Bulosan, The night the ghost got in by James Thurber, House Fear by Robert Frost, The Clearing by Jesse Stuart, The White Circle by John Bell Clayton, Fifteen by William Stafford, The Oyster and the Pearl by William Saroyan, Dreams by Langston Hughes.#2 Crosscurrents (136 pages)Contents: Lather and nothing else by Hernando Tellez, After you, my dear Alphonse by Shirley Jackson, Black like me by John Howard Griffin, Dream Variation by Langston Hughes, Common Dust by Georgia Douglas Johnson, A bargains a bargain by Gerald Durrell, I sell a dog by Mark Twain, Money by Richard Armour, The sinking of PT by James MacGregor Burns, We weep by Art Buchwald, An underground episode by Edmund Ware, the wise and the week by Philip Aponte, Johnny by M. Merchant, Ha’ penny by Alan Paton, Charles by Shirley Jackson, Molly Means by Margaret Walker, The Monsters Are due on maple street by Rod Sterling, Motto by Langston Hughes#3 Challenges (120 pages)Making it big by Dick Gregory, The health card by Alice Chidress; We wear the mask by Paul Laurence Dunbar; I, Too, Sing America by Langston Hughes; The unicorn in the garden by James Thurber; That’s what happened to me by Michael Fessier; The fifty-yard dash by William Saroyan, I saw a man by Stephen Crane; Death and the dawn by Pearl Buck; Sucker by Carson McCullers; Primer lesson by Carl Sandburg; A dangerous guy indeed by Damon Runyon; Brass Knuckles by Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Do you fear the wind by Hamlin Garland, Phone call by Berton Roueche; Sorry wrong number by Lucille Fletcher; Avenue C by Galway Kinnell.#4 Forces (128 pages)The waste land by Alan Paton, The sniper by Liam O’Flaherty, The town where no one got off by Ray Bradbury, Hate by James Stephens, The tuxedos by Jerome Weidman, Antaeus by Borden Deal, What shall he tell that son by Carl Sandburg, My Financial Career by Stephen Leacock, Ah the university by John Collier, Bargain by A. B. Guthrie, Jr., Surplus commodity by Richard Armour, Yes I can by Sammy Davis Jr and Jane and Burt Boyar, Mother to son by Langston Hughes, Enemy Territory by William Melvin Kelley, This land is your land by Woody Guthrie, In the Fog by Milton Geiger, Fog by Carl SandburgLibrary labels or stamps may be on box, cards, book inside cover or some aspect of item.Great for (libraries, home, private or public)Book rates apply to all book orders. Please allow 2 to 9 days for shipping. Shipping can be combined on multiple orders. Place your order and I will adjust the shipping before your final payment.Check out my other items.More Collectable educational materials to come!
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Features: Illustrated
Format: Hardcover
Topic: Antiques
Vintage: Yes
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Edition: First Edition
Language: English
Publication Year: 1970
Book Title: Houghton Mifflin Action Series
Intended Audience: Young Adults
Author: Unknown
Original Language: English
Narrative Type: Fiction
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Genre: Antiquarian & Collectible, Children & Young Adults
Type: Short Stories