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Murder at Ocean View College
by Karen Batchelor

An Exciting, Contemporary ESL Reader for Community College Students

Murder at Ocean View College is a gripping, contemporary teaching aid for community college, high school, and adult ESL students. Written at a language level that is challenging but not too difficult, Murder at Ocean View College helps students learn vocabulary and idioms in a fun and interesting way.

Jade Lee and Danny Soto are students training to become police officers. One morning Jade finds a dead English Teacher on the seventh floor of Peterson Hall. As they pursue the killer, against direct orders, they face a jealous woman, a cheating football coach, and parents who are opposed to their romance - as well as an angry man with a gun!

Featuring culturally diverse, multi-dimensional characters in a familiar setting, Murder at Ocean View College will keep your students learning right up to the thrilling, action-packed conclusion.

"I couldn't stop!" ESL student at City College of San Francisco

"As a teacher of ESL, I can heartily recommend Murder at Ocean View College for community college students, adult learners of ESL, and remedial readers of English." Darcy Maijer, Maryville College, Maryville, TN.

"Students will easily identify with the characters, who are community college students. Batchelor hooks the reader from the very beginning." June MCKay, retired head of the ESL program, U.C. Berkeley