Books in the A Novel Approach series were created to meet students' requests to read authentic literature and to use movies as study tools in the classroom. The textbooks in the series address interesting topics such as relationships, twentieth-century American society, and growing up in America. The series features unabridged novels and plays, offering the quantity of reading material required to show substantial improvement in reading skills and involve students in the content. Movies are viewed after students read the novel/play to offer visual and oral reinforcement of vocabulary and idiomatic expressions and to give opportunities to compare and contrast with the novel/play. This second book in the series, A Novel Approach: The Shawshank Redemption, explores the novella by Stephen King (Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption) and the popular film starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman. For intermediate to advanced ESL students. Copies of the featured books and movies are not supplied by the University of Michigan Press. Also in this series: A Novel Approach: Being There and A Novel Approach: Fried Green Tomatoes.