Original short fiction by a beloved best-selling author on her best topic relationships. Charming novella from a masterful writer on the power of family secrets. Nan Ryan lives by herself at 14 Chestnut Road. When builders arrive to fix a deserted house next door, everyone expects the worst. But when the handsome workman looks to Nan to help unravel the mystery of the previous residents' disappearance, a strange relationship develops. With family

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During the French Revolution a young English lawyer goes to the guillotine to save a French aristocrat, husband of the woman he loves. "It was the best of times; it was the worst of times ..." With these famous words, Charles Dickens plunges the reader into the French Revolution. From the storming of the Bastille to the relentless drop of the guillotine, Dickens vividly captures the terror and upheaval of that tumultuous period. At the center is the...

Adapted into 10 short chapters that will excite the reluctant reader as well as the enthusiastic one. Key words are designed and used in context. Multiple-choice questions require students to recall specific details, sequence the events, draw inferences from story context, develop another name for the chapter, and choose the main idea. Imrpoves fluency, vocabulary and comprehension. Was written using McGraw-Hill's Core Vocabulary. Has been measured...

Earl and Pearl do not want Chicken's help in the garden, until a swarm of grasshoppers arrives and her true talent shines.