The New Boy Is Lost!

The New Boy Is Lost! is more than a dramatic story with a picture for every sentence.  Lavishly illustrated with 300 full-color pictures by Loretta Lustig.   Woven throughout this dramatic novel based on a real-life story are: Essential first year vocabulary Basic sentence structures: affirmative, negative, question; simple past, present, future Survival skills Problem-solving skills Themes of courage, persistence, and multi-cultural cooperation   ESL students of all ages  will identify with a 12-year-old newcomer who worries about making friends and learning English in an American school.  The new boy, Taro, meets Ramon, Jae Han, Lee, and Susan, but no one speaks his language.  After school, Taro takes the wrong bus home and gets lost. He knows only five words of English and that his new home is near a big white gas station.  A rainstorm, and then the dark of night, add difficulty. Parents, students, and the police conduct a city-wide search for Taro, fearing the worst.  Taro draws