MEETING PEOPLE is a book of seven fiction stories for adults reading at the Third and Fourth Grade levels. They include a story from 1810 England, two stories of the Old West, a modern mystery that's kind of spooky, and three love stories of life in the 1930's, a modern special care home, and a modern fairy tale of love-at-first sight in a mall.

Readers will find word lists of terms they might not know. Mentors will find Questions that make the reader think, as well as possible answers they might hear.

Go to "Merry Old England" of 1810 and learn about the good heart of a little girl . . . Share the very real lessons taught to a young man when he left home . . . Ride along on a cattle drive and see a boy become a man . . . Share a woman's painful loss, the caring of a deputy, and a spirit's signs of real danger . . . Watch a woman alone in the 1930's as she finds her hobo gardener is much more . . . See how a brother of a handicapped young man reacts to a stranger visiting the nursing home . . . Learn how a tired store clerk finds her Prince Charming during Christmas in a mall.