This classic novel has been abridged and adapted into 10 illustrated chapters. This format is ideal for bilingual education - people learning English as a second language (ESL), English Language Learners (ELL), people of any age intending to improve reading skills and students for whom the original version would be too long or difficult. This learning product is high-interest, low-readability. Readers of this version will improve comprehension, fluency and vocabulary.
What if you had no home. What if there was no place to call home. And there was no one you could talk to about home. You couldn't say, "Where I come from it snows in the winter." Or, "I'm going home now." You just ouldn't say these things. Noone would listen to you. And everyone you met would know that you no longer had a home. Oh, I don't mean just the street you live on, or the state you live in, like New York. I mean your country. I mean the United States of America. What if the United States was taken away from you. What if you had no country. What if the President said you must leave the United States. He has you taken and put on a ship. The ship's captain is told never to bring you back to America. When the captain has to return with his ship, he puts you on another ship that goes out again. And it's always like that. You go from one ship to another. You never come home again. You have no home.