This book is a collection of reading selections compiled by a Mrs. Matty Johnson in 1922 for children in the first to tenth grades of the Greensboro City Schools. The book begins with a list of all selections in alphabetical order. The writings are assembled by grade level, and these sections start with a title list. The first grade selections include a collection of nursery rhymes not mentioned in the section's list. The writings are pulled from many legendary sources of English literature ranging from William Shakespeare to the King James Bible. (JS)