Gemma Open Door helps people acquire English language literacy skills with relevant, engaging content suitable for emergent and reluctant readers. Always original, never adapted, these stories by best-selling authors and important new voices introduce adults and young adults to the life-changing power of reading.

Fall brings more changes to the yellow house as Joe and Brita open their home to a new relative. Rashid's mother, Mona, lost her husband in the Syrian civil war, but her dreams for their son keep her going. She arrives in America with not much more than hope. As for creating her own new life? Well, that is not something Mona wants to look at just yet. But this beautiful, sad woman does not go unnoticed! Book Two in the series.

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.