These two journal issues present articles on the following: "Understanding and Teaching American Cultural Thought through English Metaphors" (Carl Zhonggang Gao); "An Alternative Model for Novice-Level Elementary ESL Education" (Karen Duke, Ann Mabbott); "Wisconsin's Approach to Academic Assessment for Limited-English Proficient Students (LEP): Creating a Continuum of Assessment Options" (Tim Boals); "More Than the Usual Heterogeneity in the ESL Writing Class" (Mark Balhorn"; "La Club de Lectura: An Oasis for Struggling Readers in Bilingual Classrooms" (Kathryn Henn-Reinke); "The Multicultural Classroom: Immigrants Reading the Literature of the American Immigrant Experience" (Molly Collins); "A Look at ESL Instruction for Literacy-Level Adults" (Patsy Vinogradov); and "Issues Related to ESL Students and Minnesota's Basic Standards Tests: A Synthesis of Research from Minnesota Assessment Project" (Michael E. Anderson, Bonnie Swierzbin, Kristin K. Liu, and Martha L. Thurlow). The journals also include reviews of several books: "Bilingual Education: Teachers' Narratives" (Nancy Lemberger); "The Internet Activity Workbook" (Dave Sperling); and "New Immigrants in the United States" (Sandra Lee McKay and Sau-Ling Cynthia Wong). Finally, the journals contain poems: "The Great Escape" (Don Hones); "ImAgInArY WoRlD" (Hawa Farah); and "A Bird Flying up the Sky" (Hawa Farah). (SM)