9780395884409. New condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 160. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 160 p. Amazing Stories. The Amazing Stories series provides engaging and motivating readings that help students build reading skills and vocabulary. Each thematic unit contains true human-interest readings adapted from newspapers or magazines and sequenced in order of increasing difficulty. The accompanying exercises ask students to dig into the subject matter get involved in the reading process and think actively.