Introduction: " I wish to make them better"
Chapter One: The optimistic vision of a joyful heart, L.M. Montgomery Anne of Green Gables
Chapter Two: Light from the candlesticks, Victor Hugo Les Miserables
Chapter Three: What song will we sing?, Harper Lee, To kill a mockingbird
Chapter Four: Comfort in the comforting, Jane Austen Sense and sensibility
Chapter Five: Educating the conscience, Mark Twain The adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Chapter Six: The great rooted place, Louisa May Alcott Little Women
Chapter Seven: With Jesus in his hour, Edna St. Vincent Millay Renascene
Chapter Eight: "I gave my onion," Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Brothers Karamazov
Chapter Nine: "God bless us everyone," Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol
Chapter Ten: A sense of self and a sense of humor, William Shakespeare Much ado about nothing & As you like it
Chapter Eleven: A medley for the child in us all, Hans Christian Anderson, Oscar Wilde, Kenneth Graham, and C.S. Lewis from the Selfish giant to Narnia
Chapter Twelve:" Why speakest thou . . . in parables?," Jesus of Nazreth, Prodigal Son to Good Samaritan
Final thoughts: "Always the seer is a sayer," Ralph Waldo Emerson "Divinity School Address."