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Introduces the main series within the Reader Collection geared to adults who are beginning to read in English. The Reader Collection is located in the Curriculum Lab on the third floor.
There are five stories in this book. The Fall of the House of Usher and The Barrel of Amontillado are stories of madness. The Maelstrom describes fear of death during a storm on the ocean. And in The Murders of the Rue Morgue and The Stolen Letter, Poe's famous Parisian detective, C. Auguste Dupin is introduced.
"Silvia Broome is an interpreter at the United Nations. One night she hears a plan to kill the President of the African state of Matobo. Agent Tobin Keller of the US Secret Service must stop the killers. But is Silvia telling the truth? Is she hiding something from him? Is she more dangerous than the President's other enemies?"
"Use a text as a basis for a sentence auction in class. Change some of the sentences to an incorrect version and see if you can fool your classmates into thinking they are correct."