Motivate students with high-interest fiction from master authors Motivate struggling readers with high-interest stories at ten reading levels Improve vocabulary and comprehension skills Encourage writing in response to reading One of our classic best-sellers, Goodman"s Five-Star Stories , supplements any literature curriculum or stands on its own by providing interesting fiction at just the right reading levels. Adapted well-known short stories by traditional authors and newer multicultural authors entice even struggling readers with tales of adventure, derring-do, and surprise. Vocabulary in context, cloze passages, and critical thinking exercises help readers improve their understanding of the narrative text.