"A&P" by John Updike

"President Cleveland, Where are You?" by Rovert Cormier

"If Only" anonymous author

"Ancestor" by Jimmy Santiago Baca

"The Old Grandfather and His Little Grandson" by Leo Tolstoy

"A Distant Bell" by Elizabeth Enright

"Welcome" by Ouida Sebestyen

"Fifteen" by Bob Greene

"Boy Meets Girl" by Peter Stone and Carl Reiner

Student Poetry

"Being Male"

"Do You Think"

"Uncertainty"

"Cinderella" by the Brothers Grimm

"The City of Trembling Leaves" by Walter van Tilburn Clark

"Sixteen" by Maureen Daly

"What Means Switch" by Gish Gen

"The Makeover of Meredith Kaplan" by Barbara Girion

"Sonnet 130" by William Shakespeare

"Love Poem" by John Frederick Nims

"Too Early Spring" by Stephen Vincent Benet

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (excerpt) by Carson McCullers

"Up on Fong Mountain" by Norma Fox Mazer

"Houseparty" by Walter Bernstein

"The Elephant is Slow to Mate" by D.H. Lawrence

"Ben's Story" anonymous author

"Judy's Story" anonymous author

"Appointment with Love" anonymous author

"Ozzie and Harriet" by Irene Wanner

"Beyond What" by Alice Walker

"The Birthday Party" by Katherine Brush

"Funeral Plans" by J. California Cooper

"Alone" by Maya Angelou

"Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds" by William Shakespeare

"Experiences in a Concentration Camp" by Victor Frankl

"Cupid and Psyche" by Apuleius

Order for the Marriage Service

Ceremony of Marriage

"I Love You" by Elmo Robinson