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