Many Voices
Literature & Language Arts

Superb literature anthologies give readers a new perspective of their world

Featuring challenging, relevant contemporary literature that fits the curriculum, these anthologies make literature more meaningful and enjoyable for students and teachers alike.

Benefits

A special literary focus in each anthology develops essential literary strategies and concepts.
The anthologies focus on literature—reading and interpreting outstanding fiction and nonfiction by highly-regarded authors.
The literature selections are both challenging and relevant for students.
The selections are easily differentiated for ELL students, struggling readers, gifted students, students working at grade level, and students with different learning styles.
Reading and writing skills correlate to state standards and national exams.

British Literature: Traditions and Change
Grades 9-12
Special Focus: Critical Thinking and Connections Among Texts

This engaging, accessible anthology presents British literature chronologically from the mid-400s through today. Students use critical thinking strategies to approach a wide variety of genres comparatively and critically—learning to read deeply, think creatively, and write meaningfully.

Themes: An Introduction to Literature
Grades 6–8
Special Focus: Vocabulary and Reading Skills

A thought-provoking collection of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama that builds a strong foundation for the study of literature.

A Multicultural Reader
Collection One—Grades 6–8
Collection Two—Grades 9–12
Special Focus: Making Cultural Connections

Two thematic collections of contemporary multicultural literature blend the uniqueness and commonalities of all cultures. Students begin to understand and appreciate cultural heritage by thinking, speaking, and writing about its effects on all people, including themselves.

Snapshots: Literature for Young Adults
Grades 6–8
Special Focus: Active Reading Strategies

Thought-provoking selections deal with contemporary issues relevant to today’s teenagers in selections in a wide variety of genres by the very best authors writing for young adults.

Pathways: Literature for Readers and Writers
Grades 6–8
Special Focus: Writing

An impressive collection of classic and contemporary literature provides students with a powerful blend of fiction, nonfiction poetry, drama, and specific genre studies that they can draw upon as inspiration for discussion and for writing.

Reading the World:
Contemporary Literature from Around the Globe
Grades 9–12
Special Focus: Research

This text blends literary, social, and geopolitical traditions with the voices of critically acclaimed writers from around the world, including many Nobel laureates.

The American Tradition:
Short Stories from 1800 to 1920
Grades 9–12
Special Focus: Literary Elements & Writing About Literature

Explore the roots of American literature with this anthology of classic short fiction that explores seven Master Writers with extended biographies and multiple selections, allowing for an in-depth analysis of their work

American Short Stories: 1920 to the Present
Grades 9–12
Special Focus: Author's Style

Appropriate for AP English, this challenging collection of important American short stories since 1920 provides insight into how an author’s writing style affects a reader’s interpretation.

Poetry in Three Dimensions:
Reading, Writing, and Critical Thinking
Through Poetry
Grades 5–9

These workbooks reflect the wide span of ability levels, interest levels, and cultural identities in today’s schools. Carefully selected classic and contemporary poems are organized into themes that appeal to middle school students’ interests as well as their struggles with self identity and relationships.

Poetry in Six Dimensions: 20th Century Voices
Grades 9–12

An outstanding collection of 200 poems exploring universal themes from diverse perspectives.

A perfect complement to high school literature classes, this cross-cultural collection features poems of varying degrees of difficulty by contemporary poets.