Fair Play
Jeremy Taylor
Maria wonders about the sad man who sits in the café where she works. Who is he? Where is he from? What does he do?
One day, she talks to him, and is surprised to learn that he is Georgie Goode, the famous football player! But he’s not famous now, and he’s not playing football now. What happened? And so Georgie tells her his story…
A story about sports, friendship, and playing fair.
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Grandad's Eleven
Jeremy Taylor
13-year old Ryan doesn’t want to visit his grandparents. He’s not interested in old people. Old people are boring! He wants to play computer games.
His best friend Ashraf misses his grandparents—they’re in Egypt, and he lives in England now. So he goes to visit Ryan’s grandparents. Both Ashraf and Albert, Ryan’s grandfather, love football. Soon Ashraf agrees to be the coach of Albert’s new football team, Grandad’s Eleven.
Ryan feels like he is losing his friend. Ashraf can’t understand why Ryan won’t help him with the team. And Albert? He’s worried about the game next week. Grandad’s Eleven has only ten players!
Grandad’s Eleven is a short story for readers who like sports, friends, family… and surprises.
Finalist, Language Learner Literature Awards, 2021
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Doing Good, Doing Well
Jeremy Taylor
16-year old Marcus has a nice house in Florida and a mother who loves him. But he isn’t doing well. He’s bored with his friends. He’s rude to his neighbors. His mother worries that, just maybe, her son isn’t a very good person.
Nearly 3000 miles away in Guatemala, Elisa isn’t doing well either. She needs money! Not for herself—for her goats. If she had some money, she could build a barn to protect her goats from wild animals. She could buy a machine to make cheese to sell in the market. But banks don’t lend money to 17-year old girls.
Gloria wasn’t doing well after her husband died, but she tried hard to make a better life for herself—and her friends. She worries about her friend’s son Marcus, though. What will make him care about more than pizza with extra cheese—and himself? Then she gets an idea…
When these three people with nothing in common are connected through the website vika.com, the power of doing good changes all of them—and their lives—forever.
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Channel Runner
Jeremy Taylor
Mary Maloney is fourteen years old and an excellent runner. She wins all her races on the girls' team at school. Now Mary wants to race against boys. But nobody believes Mary can do it—not her friends, not her teachers, and not the members of the athletics committee. How can Mary convince everyone to let her compete with boys? And if she does… can she win?
Channel Runner is a short novel for readers who love sports, fair play, and a good challenge.
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Take Five
Jeremy Taylor
The Waterbridge Wildcats are a good basketball team. But they need new shoes, new shirts, and new equipment. They need money!
Madeline Flowers owns Bango Burgers. She wants to sponsor the Wildcats. She’ll give them money, and they can advertise Bango Burgers on their clothes.
It seems perfect. But there’s something funny about Mrs. Flowers. She has some unusual ideas. And now she wants to fire the Wildcats’ coach. What is she really doing? And can the Wildcats figure it out before the championship game?
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The Call of the Wild (adapted)
Jeremy Taylor
Coming Soon!
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Frankenstein (adapted)
Jeremy Taylor
One dark, stormy night in 1816, in Geneva, Switzerland, a small group of English poets and writers decided to tell ghost stories by candlelight. Challenged to write an original ghost story, 18-year-old Mary Shelley created the story of Victor Frankenstein and the monster he brought to life.
This version of one of the most famous horror stories in the world has been adapted for intermediate English language learners and includes vocabulary support, notes on the story, and critical thinking and discussion questions.
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Bear Hunt
Jeremy Taylor
Sixteen-year-old Brad Forest is moving again; this time his mother has a job in Slovakia. Does this mean yet another boring international school for Brad? Not this time! Things in Slovakia are a little different. Almost immediately Brad makes an enemy at the school, a friend (and perhaps something more?), and discovers a mystery. And then the mystery turns dangerous…
A great book for teenagers with a sense of adventure.
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Dead in Dublin
Jeremy Taylor
“Had had!” Ten seconds later, he was dead.
Milan Schwab, a Czech language student, stumbles into his English class, utters this mysterious phrase, and dies. Daniel, his teacher, tries to figure out how he died—and most importantly, who killed him. This fast-moving murder mystery based in modern Dublin is perfect for intermediate English students who like to solve puzzles as they read.
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Jeremy Taylor
Jeremy is from England but has lived in many different countries including Germany, Egypt, France, the Czech Republic, and Ireland. In addition to being a writer, he is a teacher and teacher trainer. In his free time, he enjoys cycle touring, hiking, photography, and juggling.
