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The Holt McDougal Library includes a mix of fiction, nonfiction, drama, poetry, and biographies from a variety of reading levels for use as part of classroom curriculum or independent reading. Students will find selections they love in this extensive collection. [Pygmalion][1]: flower girl is transformed into princess: play / by Bernard Shaw -- Story of Pygmalion from The metamorphoses: a sculptor falls in love with the statue he creates: poem / by Ovid; translated by Rolfe Humphries -- Excerpt from My fair lady: a musical version of Pygmalion: play / by Alan Jay Lerner -- Her first ball: she could have danced all night: short story / by Katherine Mansfield -- The London language from The story of English: what is cockney?: essay / by Robert McCrum, William Cran, and Robert Mac Neil -- Mother tongue: a fiction writer and the language that nurtured her: essay / by Amy Tan -- Two words: a story about language and power: short story / by Isabel Allende; translated by Alberto Manguel -- The model: what lies behind the artist's gaze?: short story / by Bernard Malamud -- Words: in defense of bad grammar: poem / by Vern Rutsala. [1]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1066524W/Pygmalion