Title: The Boy Who Argued with the River

Level: Advanced (C1-C2)

Description

In the valley of Redwater, every child learns three lessons before their seventh birthday: how to swim, how to mend a net, and how to look away when the river takes somebody. Seven-year-old Pell has learned two of them. He still looks, and he still asks the questions nobody wants to answer. Last Water Night, the river took his sister.

With ten days left until the next ceremony, and his own name now in the lottery jar, Pell walks alone to the old stone bridge at dusk and does what no one in three hundred years has dared to do: he speaks to the river god and demands to read the contract. What he finds in the faded clay, and the one question the god cannot answer, will change the valley forever.

The Boy Who Argued with the River is an original myth, written for advanced English learners in a tender, lyrical register. It builds toward a complete and moving ending in which a sister comes home, an ancient bargain is rewritten, and a festival of fear becomes a festival of questions.

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Title: Saturday, Again

Level: Intermediate (B1-B2)

Description

Thandi Mokoena's worst Saturday begins when her alarm does not ring, and gets worse from there: a ruined speech, a missed bus, a seagull, and an ex-boyfriend holding hands with someone new. She falls asleep angry in her coat. Then the alarm rings at 6:00 a.m., and it is the same Saturday again.

After nine tries, Thandi finally meets the one other person in Cape Town who remembers the repeating day, a tired software engineer named Liam, and together they try everything: planes, mountains, experiments, and one embarrassing conversation with a policeman. But the day keeps coming back, and so do they.

Saturday, Again is a warm, funny romance set in Cape Town, written in clear, natural English for intermediate learners. It follows two people who have been running from their own lives, and ends with a complete, happy answer to the question every repeating day eventually asks: what does it take to reach tomorrow?

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Title: The Road to School

Level: Intermediate (B1-B2)

Description

Every morning at five o'clock, fourteen-year-old Chepkemoi Rotich puts on her faded uniform and runs ten kilometers to school along a red road in the hills of western Kenya. She has been doing it for six years and has never been late. She has also never thought of it as anything special.

Then a teacher times her with a stopwatch, and an Olympic runner arrives to watch her race in borrowed shoes two sizes too big. A full scholarship at a famous running academy could change her life, but her widowed mother needs her at home, and some dreams cost more than they seem.

The Road to School is an uplifting, emotional story about talent, family, and the courage to follow a dream, written in simple, natural English for intermediate learners. It follows one girl from a village road to the world stage, and gives every character a clear, satisfying ending.

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