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- Herausgeber: Gemma Open Door for Literacy
- Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
- Sprache: Englisch
Love is in the air, but a storm is coming! Hurricane Eli is on the way. The neighbors on Summer Street are helping each other get ready. Some are boarding up windows. Others are leaving town. Meanwhile, Olivia's romance with Rashid is growing stronger. But love is not always easy, and there are obstacles in their path. The Yellow House Stories follow daily life on Summer Street, an American neighborhood where cultures meet, challenges emerge, and people learn how to live together.
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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2025
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Alice Savage
ELI’S COMING
Alice Savage grew up in a theatrical family and began writing plays in the fifth grade. As an English teacher of adult learners, she combines creative writing with a deep awareness of language to illuminate the worlds of immigrants and cultural explorers. She credits her multicultural family as inspiration. An author on many course books for Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Pearson, and others, Alice has presented widely on the role of drama in language learning. She has published several award-winning oneact plays. Her dramatic fiction shows what happens when characters address challenges for which they may or may not be prepared. Alice lives in Houston.
First published by Gemma in 2025.
www.gemmamedia.org
©2025 by Alice Savage
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission from the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews.
Printed in the United States of America
978-1-956476-42-2
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Savage, Alice, 1962- author.
Title: Eli’s coming / Alice Savage.
Other titles: Eli is coming
Boston : Gemma, 2025. | Series: Gemma open door
Identifiers: LCCN 2024056726 (print) | LCCN 2024056727 (ebook) | ISBN 9781956476422 (trade paperback) | ISBN 9781956476439 (epub)
Subjects: LCGFT: High interest-low vocabulary books. | Novels.
Classification: LCC PS3619.A8286 E45 2025 (print) | LCC PS3619.A8286 (ebook) | DDC 813/.6–dc23/eng/20241203
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2024056726
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2024056727
Cover by Laura Shaw Design
Named after the brightest star in the Northern Crown, Gemma is a nonprofit organization that helps new readers acquire English language literacy skills with relevant, engaging books, eBooks, and audiobooks. Always original, never adapted, these stories introduce adults and young adults to the life-changing power of reading.
To Erin Miller, a great teacher and friend
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication Page
Contents
1. The Hair Salon
2. Rashid’s Big Night
3. Change of Plans
4. Dinner Rush
5. Skip
6. Nosy Neighbor
7. The Wind
8. Stuck
9. Memories
10. Eli
11. The Eye of the Storm
12. Morning
13. The Street
14. Fruit Tart
15. Clean Up
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. The Hair Salon
2. Rashid’s Big Night
3. Change of Plans
4. Dinner Rush
5. Skip
6. Nosy Neighbor
7. The Wind
8. Stuck
9. Memories
10. Eli
11. The Eye of the Storm
12. Morning
13. The Street
14. Fruit Tart
15. Clean Up
1. The Hair Salon
Olivia is sweeping the floor when the salon door opens.
“Hello? Anyone here?”
Olivia frowns. She knows that voice.
Adriana Bettencourt is standing in the doorway. She has red hair. She is wearing a purple dress with green shoes.
“Where’s Monica?” Adriana says without looking up from her phone.
“She’s traveling,” says Olivia. “She’ll be back next week.”
“I need a haircut,” says Adriana. “It’s an emergency.”
“I’m sorry,” says Olivia. “Your hair looks nice.” She tries to be helpful.
“No, it looks terrible.”
“OK.” Olivia waits.
“I guess you’ll have to do it,” says Adriana.
“Me?”
“Can you? I have a date tonight, and it’s important.”
“Now?”
“Yes. Please?”
Olivia does not want to, but she says “yes.” Adriana has a dress shop down the street, and she knows Olivia’s boss.
Adriana sits, and Olivia looks at her in the mirror. “So, what are we doing today?”
“I need a very straight cut, like Monica does,” says Adriana. “Very straight.”
“I’ll do my best,” says Olivia. She is nineteen, and customers often worry about her skills.
“I won’t talk so you can focus,” says Adriana after Olivia washes her hair. Then she starts talking. “So, I’m seeing a doctor,” says Adriana. “He’s taking me to a party.”
“That’s nice,” says Olivia.
“I’m deciding on clothes. I hate black, but everyone wears black to these things.”
“Do they?” Olivia asks politely.
“Yes.” Adriana puts down her phone. “Black is easy, but I like colors.”
“I wear colors,” says Olivia. She looks down at her pink skirt.
“Good for you!” says Adriana. “I’m going to wear green. It looks good with my hair.”
“Smart!” says Olivia. She puts her hands on Adriana’s head to stop her from moving.
“What about you?” asks Adriana. “What’s going on in your life?”
“Nothing,” Olivia begins to cut.
“That’s not true. Are you still seeing that boy, Skip?”
“Skip? No way. He moved.” Olivia shakes her head.
Adriana looks at her in the mirror. “Is there someone new?”
Olivia’s face feels hot. She cannot hide it.
“Oh, tell me! I promise I won’t tell anyone,” says Adriana.
Olivia does not believe her. Nineteenth Street is only four blocks long, but it has the salon, Adriana’s dress shop, a bank, a shipping store, Shini’s café, shops, and even a small hospital. Adriana talks to everyone about everyone.
