The InterActive Reader

by Ph.D. reading consultant Sharon Sicinski-Skeans, Toni Cade Bambara, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Reading (Middle school)LiteratureStudy and teaching (Elementary)American Horror talesAmerican literature

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About this book

Literary Selections Raymond's Run A Mother in Mannville The Ransom of Red Chief The King of Mazy May Mother to Son Speech to the Young Speech to the Progress-Toward Flowers for Algernon The Bet The Treasure of Lemon Brown Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Legacies the drum Choices from The Diary of Anne Frank The Lady, or the Tiger? [Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W) The Monkey's Paw Paul Revere's Ride from Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad from Roughing It One Million Volumes

Themes & subjects

Reading (Middle school)LiteratureStudy and teaching (Elementary)American Horror talesAmerican literatureChildren's fiction

About the authors

Toni Cade Bambara

25 Mar 1939 – 9 Dec 1995

Toni Cade Bambara, born Miltona Mirkin Cade was an American author, documentary film-maker, social activist and college professor. aka Toni Cade

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

8 August 1896 – 14 December 1953

"Before she settled in the scrub country, Marjorie Rawlings had been a newspaperwoman in Louisville Kentucky, and Rochester New York. Tiring of a life that seemed "scrappy and always in a hurry," she turned her hand unsuccessfully to short-story writing. She had almost given up when, at 32, she used a small legacy to buy her 72-acre orange grove at Cross Creek. The people and the country inspired her to continue writing. Increasingly, her fiction reflected her deepening knowledge of her chosen patch of earth. Two prizewinning stories were followed by two highly praised novels; her third novel, *The Yearling*, won its author a Pulitzer Prize and a delighted following the world over." - The E…