Choices: Stories for Adult New Readers (New Books for New Readers)

"i Don't Agree With All The Choices People Make, Says The Author. You Probably Won't Either. My Job Is To Let Them Tell Their Stories. And So She Does In These Thirteen Warm, Funny, And Sad Short Stories About People Making Hard Decisions For Themselves And For Their Families: · Like Iona, Who Accidentally Accepts A Marriage Proposal · And Daryll, Just About To Graduate From High School, Whose Mother Is Eager For Him To Make Something Of Himself. · And Lexie And Jeb, Deep In Debt And Already Struggling To Feed Their Six Children, Who Find Out A Seventh Is On The Way. These 13 short stories were written specifically for new adult readers. Each story is narrated by a fictional character from Appalachia. The words are relatively simple and the texts are printed in large-print type. The book, produced for Kentucky literacy programs, has "choices" as its theme. Each story deals with an important decision the teller has confronted, often involving marriage, family life, or work. Some of the stories are comical, others are sad. Almost all of them are linked in some way to conditions of rural Appalachian poverty. The author uses some Appalachian dialect, including non-standard grammar, to establish her characters. (TES) "" ""I don't agree with all the choices people make,"" says the author. ""You probably won't either. My job is to let them tell their stories."" And so she does in these thirteen warm, funny, and sad short stories about people making hard decisions for themselves and for their families: · Like Iona, who accidentally accepts a marriage proposal · And Daryll, just about to graduate from high school, whose mother is eager for him to ""make something"" of himself. · And Lexie and Jeb, deep in debt and already struggling to feed their six children, who find out a seventh is on the way

" "I don't agree with all the choices people make," says the author. "You probably won't either. My job is to let them tell their stories." And so she does in these thirteen warm, funny, and sad short stories about people making hard decisions for themselves and for their families: Like Iona, who accidentally accepts a marriage proposal And Daryll, just about to graduate from high school, whose mother is eager for him to "make something" of himself. And Lexie and Jeb, deep in debt and already struggling to feed their six children, who find out a seventh is on the way.