All New Easy True Stories - A Picture-Based Beginning Reader

All New Easy True Stories, by Sandra Heyer, continues the True Stories tradition with a companion book to Easy True Stories. Written at the same level, the text features all new stories and exercises.

• A man chokes on his favorite food, but his daughter saves him in a very unusual way. What is it?
• A lonely sailor puts a message in a bottle. A fisherman finds it and gives it to his daughter. What does she do with it?
• On a very hot day, a boy finds two puppies locked in a car. How does he keep them alive?

The real believe-it-or-not tales are adapted from newspapers and magazines and are sure to captivate students of English. The stories are told as simply as possible and are written almost exclusively in the present tense. Nine pre-reading drawings introduce each unit visually and ease students into reading.

Kitty Blakemore is not really ill. That is what Anne Harrison is told when she goes to work as a private nurse for the famous author. Or is she? Is someone trying to poison Mrs Blakemore? Why are the servants in the house so strange? Soon it becomes a matter for the police, and Nurse Harrison finds herself involved in a murder.