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This high-interest, low-vocabulary novella is intended for adult basic education (ABE) and English as a Second Language (ESL) readers.

This high-interest, low-vocabulary novella is intended for adult basic education (ABE) and English as a Second Language (ESL) readers. Sometimes home is not a safe place to be.

Camp Clearwater is home to best friends Nate, Owen and Mercy. They practically grew up on the Starling River. But the summer they turn sixteen an incident forces the camp to close its doors.

Before Rory and Jillian's mother died two years ago, she hired Rebecca to be the family housekeeper. But Rebecca is a terrible cook and not so great at housework either.

After his younger sister dies, 17-year-old Jean-Luc goes into a downward spiral. He is sent away for the summer to live with his uncle in a small town on the coast of France.

Twelve-year-old Macy is an amateur treasure hunter who finds lost things along the southern Saskatchewan shores of Buffalo Pound Lake.

When a distant storm knocks out the power at his high school, Cam and his friends head out for burgers.

After three years abroad, sixteen-year-old Blake Pendleton returns to his old high school and is shocked to find that the world he knew has turned upside down.

It's the first week of summer and former army brat Jake Ballard is spending it alone at his uncle's cottage while his mom gets treatment for PTSD.

Will's father was just found dead in a pile of sulfur. He was a retired cop who'd been working as a night security guard at the SulCorp sulfur mill.

Charlie Hope was not expecting to spend his summer trying to solve a murder. Helping his mother run the family hotel doesn't usually offer much excitement.

A massive earthquake forces Amy and her estranged half-sister to work together to survive. Amy is happy it's the last day of school...until a huge earthquake hits.

A thirteen-year-old boy finds a pocket watch linked to a local legend about a lost treasure. Theo is happy spending his summer searching the river for treasure.

When a flash flood leaves Zack and his younger foster brother stranded at home, it's up to Zack to make sure they survive.

In this high-interest accessible novel for teen readers, sixteen-year-old Poppy and her brother are home alone when a nearby wildfire builds and threatens to burn down their farm.