"Extensive reading is essential for improving fluency and there is a real need in the ELT classroom for contemporary, low-level reading material for younger learners. Rise of the Turtles is based on an episode from the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles TV series. Leo, Raph, Mikey and Donnie emerge from the sewers and discover New York City for the first time. Rise of the Turtles is one of four graded readers adapted from the TV series."