"The Highwayman" by Alfred Noyes
"Homeless" by Anna Quinlan
"Griffin" by Charles Baxter
Beowulf a New Telling by Robert Nye
"Titanic" by Robert Ballard
"The No Guitar Blues" by Gary Soto
"Thank You Ma'am" by Langston Hughes

"The Monsters are Due on Maple Street" by Rod Serling
"After Twenty Years" by O. Henry
The Giver by Lois Lowry