The Bears of Blue River (ESL/EFL Version)

This book is Volume I-11 of the series of readers of Million-Word Reading Project (MWRP). It is suitable for readers with a basic vocabulary of 1,500 words.
Million-Word Reading Project (MWRP) is a project in which ESL/EFL learners at elementary level (with a basic vocabulary of 1,500 words) are expected to read one million words within two or three years, and reach upper-intermediate level (with a vocabulary of about 3,500 words). This project contains about 40 simplified readers, enough for an ESL/EFL learner to read for two years, and this list is growing.

[Text Information]
Readability || 90.1
Total word count || 21830
Words beyond 1500 || 1146
Headwords beyond 1500 || 318
Unknown word percentage (%) || 5.25
Unknown headword percentage (%) || 1.46
Unknown headword occurrence || 3.6
Unknown words that occur 5 times or more || 70
Unknown words that occur 2 times or more || 158

[Synopsis]
This book describes the adventures of a young boy growing up in the wild country of Indiana in the early nineteenth century.
Little Balser lives with his parents, a younger brother, and a baby sister in a cozy log cabin on the bank of the Big Blue River. Although he is only thirteen or fourteen years old, he is quite familiar with the dangers and hardship of frontier life.
Strange stories are told about a Fire Bear among the settlers in the area. It is said that if one sees the bear and does not kill him, he will die in three months. One stormy night, Balser does see the Fire Bear….
This book is rewritten from “The Bears of Blue River” by the famous American writer Charles Major (1856-1913).