Easy True Stories: A Picture-Based Beginning Reader
by Sandra Heyer
Category: Juvenile Nonfiction

A couple feels something moving inside their mattress. Is it alive? What is it? A man's winning lottery ticket -- worth half a million dollars -- is somewhere in the town dump. Can he find it in the mountains of garbage? A woman searches 20 years for the daughter she gave up for adoption. Where does she discover her daughter? Easy True Stories, by Sandra Heyer, presents 20 new stories in the True Stories tradition: human interest stories adapted from newspapers and magazines. The stories -- some humorous, some poignant, some astounding -- are told as simply as possible. Most stories are less than half-page long, and they are written almost exclusively in the present tense. Nine pre-reading drawings introduce each unit visually and ease students into reading. Easy True Stories can be used as a first reader for students who have some experience with English. The True Stories series also includes: Very Easy True Stories All New Very Easy True Stories All New Easy True Stories True Stories in the News, Third Edition More True Stories, Second Edition Even More True Stories Beyond True Stories