Includes indexes.

Part 1: Reading Fiction. A girls story / David Arnason -- The fun they had / Isaac Asimov -- Greasy lake / T. Coraghessan Boyle -- All the years of her life / Morley Callaghan -- Mr. Truepennys book emporium and gallery / Charles De Lint -- Chickens for Christmas / Garry Engkent -- The cowherd a Chinese folktale, retold by Garry Engkent -- The moose and the sparrow / Hugh Garner -- The immaculate conception photography gallery / Katherine Govier -- Stolen chocolates / Ursula Hegi -- So what are you, anyway? / Lawrence Hill -- The lottery / Shirley Jackson -- Generation y / Nancy Kilpatrick ? Girl / Jamaica Kincaid -- The loons / Margaret Laurence -- How we kept Mothers day / Stephen Leacock -- The prodigal son / Luke 15:11-32 -- The ant and the grasshopper / W. Somerset Maugham -- An ounce of cure -- Alice Munro -- One rejection too many / Patricia Nurse -- The man I killed / Tim Obrien -- The cask of amontillado / Edgar Allan Poe -- Lifeguard / Barbara Scott -- The lady or the tiger / Frank R. Stockton -- Sedna, the witch under the sea / Marion Wood --

Part 2: Reading Non-fiction. The mathematics of relationships / Robert Arnason -- Where do children play? / Deborah Banks -- Grey owls magnificent masquerade / John Barber -- Truth and consequence / Brian Bethune -- Toothpaste / David Bodanis -- Growing up on grace / Rosie DiManno -- The pattern of eating / Peter Farb and George Armelagos -- A cell of our own making / Moira Farr -- Don?t you think it?s time to start thinking? / Northrop Frye -- No offence / Curtis Gillespie -- No idol industry here / Charlotte Gray -- Once upon a time, a story meant survival / Jay Ingram -- Of weirdos and eccentrics / Pico Iyer -- Mess up your kids education in 10 easy steps / Donna Kerrigan -- Toxic culture syndrome / Kalle Lasn -- Techno dummies need not suffer in silence / Philip Marchand -- Shooting an elephant / George Orwell -- Never give in, never / Richard Pound -- Have wheels, will go a-wooing / Kurt Preinsperg -- Drugs in sports: why the fuss? / Jan Ritchie -- The story of grey owl / Colin Ross -- Are goody bags a good thing? / Rita Sirignano -- Pet-o-philia / Judith Timson -- If were so rich, why aren't we happy? / Margaret Wente -- Rediscovering Christmas / Almas Zakiuddin.