This book is intended for young teenage students of English as a foreign language.
A series of adventure readers for young teenage learners of the English language, featuring a puzzle on each double page spread, which the reader must solve before continuing with the story. Students need to use their powers of perception and deduction, as well as clues in the text.
"Sarah has just got a job at Cloud Company. But one day when she goes to the office, Cloud Company has vanished! A strange series of occurrences leads her to a haunted farmhouse."
Cornelia Funke - InkheartIn Inkheart, the twelve-year-old, Meggie, discovers that her father Mortimer, a professional bookbinder, has the unusual ability to transfer characters from books into the real world when he reads aloud. Scared by his own talents, Mo once brought four characters of a book entitled Inkheart to life while reading from the novel.
These leveled fiction and nonfiction ELL Readers provide sheltered support (comprehensible input, labelled pictures) for the vocabulary development of ELL students in first grade.
My Own Personal Soap Opera: Looking for reality in all the wrong places
Malin's latest is heavy on humor, but disappoints with plot. Frankie McNally is the head writer for Lust for Life, the longest-running (and currently lowest-rated) television soap opera, and while she can't shake the sense that she should be writing the Great American Novel, Frankie's use of the show to work out her innermost frustrations through the characters has therapeutic value. But when management calls in marketing guru Victor Pendergrast to save the show, Frankie's suddenly a little less comfortable.
Ben Transom is a simple farmer who sings off-key to his horse and wishes he were a bard. But when a goblin raid from the Shiddow Mountains destroys Ben's simple life, he is sent to petition the king for justice and is thrown into an adventure greater than he every dreamed. Along the way, Ben meets the warrior-princess Jess and the pacifist wizard Ernie. Soon they learn that the evil wizard Rimmah has enslaved Jess's parents and seeks to conquer the entire kingdom of Tarn, and Ben finds himself caught up in events more dangerous than he ever imagined.
