The "TPRS Books" Series
Learning Fluency the TPRS Way
Berto and His Good Ideas
by Magaly Rodriguez
Berto and His Good Ideas – by Magaly Rodriguez (Basic Level)
Translated by Blaine Ray. For true beginners. Short and easy and very amusing.
Berto is an eleven-year-old boy who lives in Madrid, Spain. His best friend is Paquita. Poor Berto has one big problem. He does not like school. He does not like to study. He does not like to do homework. Besides, his teachers are really strange.
Fortunately, Berto has a lot of good ideas. He thinks of many fun and exciting things to do rather than going to school. His good ideas include visiting a soccer stadium and an art museum with his friend Paquita. Berto also thinks about eating delicious pastries at a bakery and rowing a boat in a park. Berto thinks these are good ideas. In fact, he thinks they are great ideas. Are they really?
Friendship Matters
by Victoria Warrior
Friendship Matters– by Victoria Warrior (Basic Level )
The easiest novel that exists in English – for first-year students.
A vocabulary of only 150 words.
Larissa Silva is a 13-year-old girl who lives in Natal, the beautiful capital of the state of Rio Grande do Norte on the northeastern coast of Brazil. She is very shy and has few friends. During her school vacation in January, she goes with her family to Pirangi, a beach not far to the south.
There she meets a girl named Tereza and they become friends.
Friendship Matters is short and easy. When they read it, beginning students discover that they have actually learned a significant amount of English.
Basic Level for Beginners.
Poor Ana
by Blaine Ray
Poor Ana – by Blaine Ray (Level 1 – Book A)
The easiest novel that exists in English – for first-year students.
A vocabulary of only 300 words.
Ana is a 15-year-old girl who leads a tough life in a small city in Mexico.
Her mother is always on her. Her family doesn’t have much money, but her best friend’s families have more money. She’s extremely jealous of them.
When she gets an opportunity to go to California, she goes to Los Angeles, where she lives with a very nice family that has conflicts similar to the ones in her own family. Her view of her life changes radically. When she gets back home, she sees everything in a different light.
Poor Ana is short and easy. When they read it, beginning students discover that they have actually learned a significant amount of English.
Detective Friends
by Patricia Verano
Detective Friends – by Patricia Verano (Level 1 – Book C2)
Translated from Spanish by Blaine Ray. Edited by Contee Seely, Pablo Ortega López and Tamara Romijn.
Alberto and Pedro are good friends. They are ten years old, they live in Bolivia and they are classmates. Both of their fathers are famous scientists. Like his father, Pedro is fascinated with science. Alberto, on the other hand, is an artist. He draws every animal that he sees amazingly well.
One day, while he and Pedro are seeking “adventures” along the shore of Lake Titicaca, they notice a mysterious man behaving strangely. Combining their scientific and artistic talents, the two friends begin to try to solve a mystery fraught with mischief, danger and wild animals.
Detective Friends is short, easy novella for learners of English. It is fun and captivating.
He Almost Dies
by Lisa Ray Turner and Blaine Ray
He Almost Dies – by Lisa Ray Turner and Blaine Ray (Level 1 – Book C)
Edited by Verónica Moscoso and Contee Seely.
An easy novella for 1st or 2nd year students of English.
An engaging story, with a taste of romance, about a 16-year-old girl who goes to high school in Chile for three months. Early in her stay she has an encounter with a boy whose life is in danger and with another one who is mean and nasty.
Before she goes home to California, there is another highly charged incident in which both boys are involved. Can the mean one change?
Short and Captivating! The Spanish version of this novella is in its 18th printing.
He Almost Dies is a short and easy novella for learners of English.
It is fun and captivating.
Life or Death in Cusco
by Lisa Ray Turner and Blaine Ray
Life or Death in Cusco – by Lisa Ray Turner and Blaine Ray (Level 3)
Life or Death in Cusco is loaded with cultural descriptions and references.
The level of grammar is high. For 3rd and 4th year students.
High School senior Elena Garcia is vacationing in Cusco, Peru, with her mother. Everything that Elena experiences bugs her – the food, the people, the clothing, the altitude…
She would rather have stayed home in Colorado. She is just starting to get interested in some things when her mother has an accident and suddenly Elena has to deal with the aftermath. The experiences that follow have a transformative effect on Elena.
Life or Death in Cusco is a short and easy novella for intermediate learners of English. It is fun and captivating.
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