Meet the Mendez family: Vera, Ricardo, David, and Carmen. The kids need new jackets, so they go shopping. At the store, Carmen meets a good friend. The Mendez family enjoys lunch at Kate’s Diner. Then, Ricardo starts to think about a new job as a food truck server. Will he take the new job? Meet the Yousef family: Dina, Abdul, Zara, Hassan, and Fariba. Fariba is happy to meet her friend Carmen at the store. On the way home, Dina needs to get some medicine at the pharmacy for Hassan. Hassan is sick, and he has a big soccer game in two days. Will he get better in time for the game? The families meet at the soccer park for the big game. David and Hassan play on the same team. Will they win? In Town helps English language learners practice reading in several ways. The stories help reading fluency. Sentences include useful vocabulary and many common words in English. Some stories have conversations that model spoken English. In Town features short and long vowel sounds, and common sight words.

In the Kasongo family, Binwa works hard at her job and in her home. She is tired. Will her husband and kids help, so she can get some rest? The Kasongos need a new sofa and chairs, but furniture is expensive. What can they do? Joseph finished his first year of university. The family celebrated with a special dinner. Jerome hears a dripping tap in the kitchen. He can’t fix it. Who can help? The Park family lives in a small apartment. The neighbors are loud, the rent is expensive, and their twin daughters are not happy. Soo Jin wants to buy a house, but a house payment is a lot of money. How can they get more money? Will they find a new house? At Home helps English language learners practice reading in several ways. The stories help reading fluency. Sentences include useful vocabulary and many common words in English. Some stories have conversations that model spoken English. At Home features short and long vowel sounds, consonant blends and digraphs, and common sight words. The stories feature common situations for everyday life in an apartment or house. Keywords: graded reader, leveled reader, phonics, literacy, chapter book

Ricardo wants a new job. Kate needs help with her new food truck. Ricardo is good at serving food, but lunch time is very busy. A customer says, “This is fish. I don’t want fish. I don’t like fish! I asked for chicken.” Help! Zara is a high school student. She wants to buy a guitar. But guitars cost a lot of money. What kind of job can Zara do? At Work tells stories of ordinary people solving problems in their jobs. Pam doesn’t want a new computer. Abdul needs new tools, but he doesn’t have much money. Bob is too busy, and he needs help at work. At Work helps English language learners practice reading in several ways. The stories help reading fluency. Sentences include useful vocabulary and many common words in English. Some stories have conversations that model spoken English. At Work features short and long vowel sounds and common sight words.

Meet the Park family. Their two daughters are starting school in the US. Their teacher is very nice, but she wants to give Min Jee an English name. And Min Jee doesn’t want an English name... Her mom is taking a Zoom class to help her English. But nobody can hear her! What can she do? In the Kasongo family, Helene doesn’t understand how to do her math homework. Her parents can do math, but the teacher wants it done a special way… Joseph is working hard at university. Then one day he has a chance to help another student learn a language he knows. At School helps English language learners practice reading in several ways. The stories help reading fluency. Sentences include useful vocabulary and many common words in English. Some stories have conversations that model spoken English. At School features short and long vowel sounds, consonant blends, and common sight words. The stories feature common situations in elementary school, high school, and university. Keywords: graded reader, leveled reader, phonics, literacy

At the Lake integrates interactive reading instructional techniques and sound ESL methodology to help beginners acquire literacy skills in English. Focusing on phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension, At the Lake reinforces and extends the basic literacy instruction found in At the River.Short stories and multiple exercises offer scaffolded practice in the most commonly used sound-spelling patterns of long vowels in English. R-controlled vowels and other vowel variations are also taught directly. Students review short vowels, consonant blends, and consonant digraphs in each unit. At the Lake helps students build reading fluency and decoding skills, which foster vocabulary acquisition and comprehension skills.At the Lake enables ESL teachers of any experience level to teach reading in English to students with limited or interrupted formal education, or to any student who needs to improve spelling, decoding, pronunciation, and reading in English. A detailed teacher's guide and audio files are available free of charge on the Wayzgoose Press website.

The themes cover a wide range - from the tenacity with which old demagogues hold on to political power, to teenage love and infactuation in the village setting; family life with its challenge and inexorable attraction of married men to their extra-marital satisfaction.

With the explosion in YA publishing, it’s harder than ever to separate good books from the rest. Booklistmagazine’s editors’ deep and broad knowledge of the landscape offers indispensable guidance, and here they bring together the very best of the best books for young adults published since the start of the 21st century. Drawing on the careful judgment of expert YA librarians, this book Includes a foreword by best-selling YA lit authority Michael Cart, who demonstrates how we have entered a new golden age of books for young adults Collects reviews which showcase the most stimulating contemporary YA titles Features an essay in each section, grouped by genre, presenting an overview and examining relevant trends Indexes selections by author, title, and genre for handy reference The thoughtful professional review coverage for which ALA’s Booklist is known makes this volume an ideal tool for YA readers’ advisory and collection development.

If you are looking to brush up on your literary knowledge, check a favorite author's work, or see a year's bestsellers at a glance, The Chronology of American Literature is the perfect resource. At once an authoritative reference and an ideal browser's guide, this book outlines the indispensable information in America's rich literary past--from major publications to lesser-known gems--while also identifying larger trends along the literary timeline. Who wrote the first published book in America? When did Edgar Allan Poe achieve notoriety as a mystery writer? What was Hemingway's breakout title? With more than 8,000 works by 5,000 authors, The Chronology makes it easy to find answers to these questions and more. Authors and their works are grouped within each year by category: fiction and nonfiction; poems; drama; literary criticism; and publishing events. Short, concise entries describe an author's major works for a particular year while placing them within the larger context of that writer's career. The result is a fascinating glimpse into the evolution of some of America's most prominent writers. Perhaps most important, The Chronology offers an invaluable line through our literary past, tying literature to the American experience--war and peace, boom and bust, and reaction to social change. You'll find everything here from Benjamin Franklin's "Experiments and Observations on Electricity," to Davy Crockett's first memoir; from Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience" to Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome; from meditations by James Weldon Johnson and James Agee to poetry by Elizabeth Bishop. Also included here are seminal works by authors such as Rachel Carson, Toni Morrison, John Updike, and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. Lavishly illustrated--and rounded out with handy bestseller lists throughout the twentieth century, lists of literary awards and prizes, and authors' birth and death dates--The Chronology of American Literature belongs on the shelf of every bibliophile and literary enthusiast. It is the essential link to our literary past and present.