This curriculum based, high-interest fiction and nonfiction stories with follow-up exercises are designed to help students strengthen comprehension and literacy skills. Exercises include questions which require students to: locate literal information; interpret and evaluate material: arrange events in sequence: infer ideas: summarize the story: present the main idea: predict possible outcomes: provide alternative endings, and much more! They are excellent complementary books for classroom reading programs and they provide very good practice for standardized tests. Each book also comes with a compressive set of answer pages.