PERSEVERANCE: The fire builder -- Amaroq, the wolf -- On top of the world -- Saint George and the dragon -- Fine art -- Picture book of Jesse Owens -- Mother to son -- Back to the drawing board -- Crazy boy -- UNCOVERING THE PAST: Digging up the past -- Search for early americans -- Island of bulls -- Popele on the beach -- His Majesty, Queen Hatshepsut -- Pzymandias -- To the not impossible him -- Silk route -- TAKING A STAND: -- Pretty pennies picket -- Class discussion -- Grimke sisters -- I have a dream -- Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Long way to go -- Gandhi -- Sweeping Pittsburgh clean -- BEYOND THE NOTES: Nightingale -- Music -- Lady Merida -- Great musician -- Orpheus and his lute -- Sound of flutes -- On hearing a flute at night -- Man who wrote Messiah -- What is jazz -- Weary blues -- Ray and Mr. Pit -- What is music? -- Midori, Mr. Einsteins's violin -- ECOLOGY: Protecting wildlife -- Passenger pigeon -- Alejandro's gift -- Windows on wildlife -- Natural force -- Poem for the ancient trees -- Saving the peregrine falcon -- Day they parachuted cats on Borneo -- QUESTION OF VALUE: Miser -- Money matters -- Gift for a gift -- Shoeshine stand -- Gold coin -- President Cleveland, where are you -- No-guitar blues -- Courage that my mother had -- Coin -- Hundred Penny Box.