The Barrio Kings by William Kowalski is an outstanding novel for beginner-level adult readers. I've designed a thorough novel study that provides practice with a variety of reading strategies (predict, connect, using context to figure out tricky words), comprehension questions (sequence, character, details, summaries), vocabulary-building exercises, writing activities, and even grammar mini-lessons - all suitable for beginner-level literacy learners. There is one unit for each of the 16 chapters