Prologue
Almost Ready
Arnold Adoff
Creating Context
Living the Examined Life: An Inside Job • Concept Vocabulary
Cluster One: How Do I Find Out Who I Am?
Thinking Skill: Defining
- Remember Me (short story)
- Vivian Vande Velde
- On Being Seventeen, Bright, and Unable to Read (autobiography)
- David Raymond
- Your Body Is Your ID (article)
- Hank Schlesinger
- The Changeling (poem)
- Judith Ortiz Cofer
- Transformación (poem)
- Translated from the English by Johanna Vega
- Be-ers and Doers (short story)
- Budge Wilson
- Getting Ready (prose poem)
- Debra Marquart
Cluster Two: Where Do I Fit?
Thinking Skill: Analyzing
- Tiffany, age eleven (personal essay)
- Rebecca Carroll
- The Green Killer (short story)
- M.E. Kerr
- The Cutting of My Long Hair (memoir)
- Zitkala-Ša
- The Way Up (short story)
- William Hoffman
- Saying Yes (poem)
- Diana Chang
Cluster Three: What Do I Believe?
Thinking Skill: Evaluating
- Born Worker (short story)
- Gary Soto
- Dolly’s False Legacy (essay)
- Ian Wilmut
- Moon (short story)
- Chaim Potok
- I’m Nobody (poem)
- Emily Dickinson
Cluster Four: Thinking on Your Own
Thinking Skill: Synthesizing
- Fairy Tale (short story)
- Todd Strasser
- Side 32 (poem)
- Victor Hernández Cruz
- Fox Hunt (short story)
- Lensey Namioka
- Holly, age fifteen (personal essay)
- Jill Krementz
- Birthday Box (short story)
- Jane Yolen
