This textbook is a sixth-year reader in a series of readers prepared for the fourth, fifth, and sixth grades, now recognized as the crucial years in gaining technique in silent reading. The series objective is to direct silent reading, to motivate oral reading, to develop the reading habit, and to broaden the child's outlook on life. In their preparation the editor has been guided by her study of the most authoritative and upto-date reports, investigations, courses of study, and surveys. In the Teachers' Manual which accompanies the series, she has worked out a methodology for silent reading.