Foreign Language Dictionaries & Thesauruses, Words, Language & Grammar, English as a Second Language 

Crime is dirty. It's time to clean house. While home from college, enjoying the final days of your summer vacation, you get a phone call from your cousin, Nick. He has disturbing news: Your mother has mysteriously disappeared. You and your mother haven't talked to each other in years, but you quickly travel to Washington, D.C. to stay with Nick and his girlfriend, Cat, and help in the investigation. You start with your mother's employer, Cleaning House, Inc., and meet Betty, your mother's coworker, who suggests that a former client may have something to do with her sudden disappearance. Eventually you learn that Cleaning House, Inc. is no ordinary agency, and that there is more to your mother than you thought. As your detective work gets you closer to the shocking truth, you find yourself entangled in a web of lies and coverups. Who is really trying to help you? Who is hiding something? Nothing is what it seems. Cleaning House is an offbeat detective-thriller about trust and reading between the lines. RECOMMENDED FOR ADVANCED LEVEL LEARNERS TURN OF PHRASE ESL (TOP ESL) is an educational series that teaches English language idioms, phrasal verbs, and collocations in the form of chooseable path novels. The series is designed for intermediate to advanced young adult and adult students. Researchers have long shown that learning in meaningful contexts can help English language learners become more fluent and improve vocabulary retention. TOP ESL books are the ideal learning tool for the classroom or independent study because they are immersive and fun, and unlike other books, they put students right in the driver’s seat. The books make use of gamebook-inspired ‘decision points.’ At every decision point, readers are tested on their understanding of idiomatic expressions or situational contexts. TOP ESL books offer not only a rich source of idiomatic expressions but also meaningful contexts of those expressions in action, and a reading format that will have English language learners hooked with cliffhangers and plot twists. TOP ESL books complement all types of curricula that promote engaged and self-directed learning. To learn more about this book and other titles in the series, visit www.nightowlspress.com/turn-of-phrase-esl/. - from Amzon