students. the subject matter characters and graphics have been carefully chosen to relate to boys lives and are just the right length. real world applications address students emotional development as they delve into issues like homelessness sex education and smoking. the before during and after reading exercises incorporate effective research-based reading comprehension strategies including: activating priorknowledge predicting visualizing guestioning drawing inferences summarizing synthesizing monitoring and repairing comprehension and evaluation. 96 pages.  (less)