ESL Reading List: Relationships

After learning that the cousin he dislikes is coming for a visit, a boy imagines what unpleasant things might happen to him.

A butterfly tries to help a lost young monkey find its mother in the jungle, meeting many different animals along the way.

Features a long-suffering boy's eye-rolling observations of his father's bombastic and often corny sense of humor, which is comprised of groan-out-loud puns and wisecracking rejoinders.

Silas' Seven Grandparents is a fun and loving story about having multiple sets of grandparents and stepgrandparents. When Silas' parents go away on a business trip, all seven grandparents invite Silas to stay with them....How can he choose one without hurting the others' feelings?

Sisters Frankie and Violet spend a special day out with their father doing all the things they like best.

Two cousins, one in Mexico and one in New York City, write to each other and learn that even though their daily lives differ, at heart the boys are very similar.

When Little Critter helps his Dad all day long, things don't go as planned.

When Katie Woo and her friends go to the beach, Katie is so rude and bossy that her friends do not want to play with her.

Harry is worried about being the ring boy at his Aunt Rose's wedding, after he hears his friend Dorcas tell horror stories about what went wrong at her Uncle Fred's wedding.