pt 1. Values that relate to one's self (courage, self-discipline, integrity, creativity, and playfulness) : courage. The story of my life / Helen Keller -- from The last of the dragons. "The deliverers of their country" / E. Nesbit -- from Frog and toad together. "Dragons and giants" / Arnold Lobel -- from Charlotte's web. "Wilbur's escape" / E.B. White -- Proverbs -- The underground railroad / Arnold Gragson -- Unlearning to not speak / Marge Piercy -- Fifth Chinese daughter / Jade Snow Wong -- A wrinkle in time / Madeleine L'Engle.

pt 1. Values that relate to one's self (courage, self-discipline, integrity, creativity, and playfulness) : self-discipline. from My left foot. "The letter 'A'" / Christy Brown -- Mother to son / Langston Hughes -- The man who planted trees / Jean Giono -- Understood Betsy / Dorothy Canfield Fisher -- Running as a spiritual experience / Mike Spino -- Some advice to those who will serve time in prison / Nazim Hikmet -- West with the night / Beryl Markham -- Harriet Tubman is in my blood / Mariline Wilkins.

pt 1. Values that relate to one's self (courage, self-discipline, integrity, creativity, and playfulness) : integrity. Simple gifts / Shaker hymn -- Eleven / Sandra Cisneros -- The head man : a fable / Mark Vecchoise -- The world is round / Gertrude Stein -- Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave / Frederick Douglass -- Half the people in the world / Yehuda Amichai -- Tony went to the bodega but he didn't buy anything / Martín Espada -- Indian boarding school : the runaways / Louise Erdrich -- Just like Martin / Ossie Davis -- King Lear / William Shakespeare -- Mam's gone / Liza Rymer -- The censors / Luisa Valenzuela -- The republic of conscience / Seamus Heaney.

pt 1. Values that relate to one's self (courage, self-discipline, integrity, creativity, and playfulness) : creativity. The secret / Denise Levertov -- Fathers / Richard P. Feynman -- Metalogue : how much do you know? / Gregory Bateson -- The lost prince / Frances Hodgson Burnett -- The boy who drew cats / Colin Greer -- You'd better believe him : a fable / Brian Patten -- Alice in Wonderland / Lewis Carroll -- The genius child / Langston Hughes -- Midnight hour encores / Bruce Brooks -- Everyone sang / Siegfried Sassoon -- Daybreak in Alabama / Langston Hughes -- In my craft or sullen art / Dylan Thomas -- Frederick / Leo Linonni -- from Angelitos negros : a salsa ballet. Prologue / Miguel Algarín -- from The pleasantries of the incredible Mulla Nasrudin. "Dry in the rain" / Idries Shah -- The last of the dragons / E. Nesbit -- from Owl at home. "Tear-water tea" / Arnold Lobel -- Six degrees of separation / John Guare.

pt 1. Values that relate to one's self (courage, self-discipline, integrity, creativity, and playfulness) : playfulness. Pippi Longstocking / Astrid Lindgren -- Birches / Robert Frost -- Listening to the music of Arsenio Rodriguez is moving closer to knowledge / Victor Hernandez Cruz -- The sword of wood / Doug Lipman -- Mary Poppins / P.L. Travers -- The laughter / Heinrich Böll -- Lame Deer's vision / John Fire/Lame Deer, Richard Erdoes -- How the hat ashes shovel helped Snoo Foo / Carl Sandburg -- Metalogue : about games and being serious / Gregory Bateson -- Alice in Wonderland / Lewis Carroll -- Peter Pan / James M. Barrie.

pt 2. Values that relate to people one knows (loyalty, generosity, empathy, honesty, and adaptability) : loyalty. A little princess / Frances Hodgson Burnett -- Grandma's cherries / Geoffrey Canada -- Ramona Quimby, age 8 / Beverly Cleary -- Pinocchio / Carlo Collodi -- My mother's mother / Annette Kennerly -- The last day of a condemned man / Victor Hugo -- Man'Yoshu / Yamanoue Okura -- Death of a salesman / Arthur Miller -- The return of the Indian / Lynne Reid Banks -- Jane Eyre / Charlotte Brontë -- My children! my Africa! / Athol Fugard -- Complicity / Denise Levertov -- Joe Hill / Alfred Hayes -- The new colossus / Emma Lazarus.

pt 2. Values that relate to people one knows (loyalty, generosity, empathy, honesty, and adaptability) : generosity. Pollyanna / Eleanor Porter -- Heidi / Johanna Spyri -- The house at Pooh Corner / A.A. Milne -- Little women / Louisa May Alcott -- from Native American proverbs. Soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears / Guy A. Zona -- from Proverbs of Africa. The house of the heart is never full / Guy A. Zona -- from When we were very young. "The king's breakfast" / A.A. Milne -- The autobiography of Malcolm X / Malcolm X -- The trumpet of the swan / E.B. White -- The gift of the Magi / O. Henry -- The builders / Sara Henderson Hay -- The endless steppe / Esther Hautzig -- Ann of Avonlea / L.M. Montgomery -- A day no pigs would die / Robert Newton Peck.

pt 2. Values that relate to people one knows (loyalty, generosity, empathy, honesty, and adaptability) : empathy. The grateful sparrow / Anonymous -- One more river / Lynne Reid Banks -- Flowers and freckle cream / Elizabeth Ellis -- The wizard of Oz / L. Frank Baum -- Canisy / Jean Follain -- Rainbow valley / L.M. Montgomery -- The pioneers / James Fenimore Cooper -- Orange cheeks / Jay O'Callahan -- Mary Poppins / P.L. Travers.

pt 2. Values that relate to people one knows (loyalty, generosity, empathy, honesty, and adaptability) : honesty. Fathers / Alice Walker -- Pinocchio / Carlo Collodi -- from Giving birth to Thunder, sleeping with his daughter. "Coyote and the skunk kill game / Barry Lopez -- The emperor's new clothes / Hans Christian Andersen -- Shooting an elephant / George Orwell -- The Constitution of the United States : Article I, Section 2 -- The slaves speak -- The Emancipation Proclamation -- The Constitution of the the United Sates, Amendment XIII -- Northanger Abbey / Jane Austen -- Oliver Twist / Charles Dickens.

pt 2. Values that relate to people one knows (loyalty, generosity, empathy, honesty, and adaptability) : adaptability. Sky diving / Ishmael Reed -- All things bright and beautiful / James Herriot -- The lion, the witch and the wardrobe / C.S. Lewis -- Now that the water presses hard / Yehuda Amichai -- Catherine, called Birdy / Katherine Cushman -- Understood Betsy / Dorothy Canfield Fisher -- The wizard of Oz / L. Frank Baum -- The lion and the boar / Aesop -- The Scotty who knew too much / James Thurber -- Izzy, willy-nilly / Cynthia Voigt -- Jaguarandi / Virginia Hamilton -- Catherine, called Birdy / Katherine Cushman -- Katori Maru, October 1920 / James Masao Mitsui.

pt 3. Values that relate to people one doesn't know and nature (idealism, compassion, responsibility, balance, and fairness) : idealism. I hear it was charged against me / Walt Whitman -- Tell all the truth / Emily Dickinson -- Peter Pan / James M. Barrie -- John Henry / Julius Lester -- The candle / Hans Christian Andersen -- Listen for the singing / Jean Little -- The diary of Anne Frank / Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett -- Invisible man / Ralph Ellison -- Gospel of Mark, 5 -- My philosophy / Albert Einstein -- Antigone / Jean Anouilh -- For poets / Al Young -- Let us now praise famous men / James Agee -- Lincoln's famous beard / Lucille and Bren Breneman.

pt 3. Values that relate to people one doesn't know and nature (idealism, compassion, responsibility, balance, and fairness) : compassion. A bargain for Frances / Russell Hoban -- Psalm 133 -- from A life of poetry. "The courage of plants--" / Yehuda Amichai -- [untitled] / Anonymous -- [untitled] / Basho -- from The way of life. "A sound man's heart--" / Lao Tzu -- Among the tribes-- / Mary Kay Boyd -- Book of songs / Traditional Japanese -- Smith / Leon Garfield -- Promised land / Francisco X. Alarcón -- Hunger / Si Kahn -- A raisin in the sun / Lorraine Hansberry -- Ojibway prayer -- The hundred dresses / Eleanor Estes -- The wisdom of the Jewish sages -- Black beauty / Anna Sewell -- Birmingham, 1963 / Raymond R. Patterson -- I have words to spend / Robert Cormier -- Pig earth / John Berger -- In memory of our cat, Ralph / Garrison Keillor.

pt 3. Values that relate to people one doesn't know and nature (idealism, compassion, responsibility, balance, and fairness) : responsibility. Fable / Anonymous -- The growing / Mongane Wally Serote -- My friend Flicka / Mary O'Hara -- Just above my head / James Baldwin -- To all my wars-- / Yehuda Amichai -- Isabel / Ogden Nash -- Strong men, riding horses / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Not coming too late / Abraham Joshua Heschel -- I cannot predict / E.F. Schumacher -- Spoon River anthology / Edgar Lee Masters -- from Local news. "The school plays" / Gary Soto -- A fairy tale about God and kings / Carl Ewald -- Gospel of Luke, 15 -- How the children stopped the wars / Jan Wahl -- Long walk to freedom / Nelson Mandela.

pt 3. Values that relate to people one doesn't know and nature (idealism, compassion, responsibility, balance, and fairness) : balance. Allegiances / William Stafford -- from Elderberry flute song. "Coyote, coyote, please tell me" / Peter Blue Cloud/Aroniawenrate -- Shawno / George Dennison -- The human cycle / Colin Turnbull -- The frog and the ox / Aesop -- Pictures of the gone world / Lawrence Ferlinghetti -- A childhood story to treasure / Ge Vue -- What I have lived for / Bertrand Russell -- The immense journey / Loren Eiseley -- Rascal / Sterling North -- The war of the bells / Gianni Rodari -- The acorn people / Ron Jones -- The story of the hungry elephant / Karen Kennerly -- Miss Rumphius / Barbara Cooney.

pt 3. Values that relate to people one doesn't know and nature (idealism, compassion, responsibility, balance, and fairness) : fairness. The ten principles (abbreviated) from the United Nations' Declaration of the Rights of the Child, 1959 -- The jacket / Gary Soto -- The way of life / Lao Tzu -- Birds, beasts, and bat / Leonard Jenkin -- Twenty and ten / Claire Huchet Bishop -- The grapes of wrath / John Steinbeck -- "Race" politics / Luis J. Rodríguez -- Ourika / Claire De Duras -- Farewell to Manzanar / Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, James D. Houston -- Poem / Muriel Rukeyser -- Psalm 15 -- I have a dream / Martin Luther King, Jr.

pt 4. Values that relate to love. The velveteen rabbit / Margery Williams -- The magic locket / Elizabeth Koda-Callan -- Love after love / Derek Walcott -- Letters from a man in solitary / Nazim Hikmet -- Splendor / Lois Lowry -- First memory / Louise Glück -- More adventures of the great brain / John D. Fitzgerald -- The effect of gamma rays on Man-in-the-Moon marigolds / Paul Zindel -- A tree within / Octavio Paz -- Behold, my brothers / Sitting Bull -- The hunchback of Notre Dame / Victor Hugo -- Song for a banjo dance / Langston Hughes -- Barter / Sara Teasdale -- The glove and the lions / Leigh Hunt -- The wisdom of the Jewish sages -- The little prince / Antoine de Saint-Exupéry -- A wrinkle in time / Madeleine L'Engle -- Frankenstein / Mary Shelley -- The patched pants / Bruno Schönlank.