Collection: Language Learning Fiction

A comic series designed for Chinese‑language learners that reinforces the 1,500+ characters from Mandarin Matrix through engaging, action‑packed stories. Each book introduces incremental vocabulary, helping students review what they’ve learned and build fluency through accessible, motivating read...

Introduces 42 traditional Korean folktales with bilingual Korean and English versions, presented on facing pages, together with detailed notes and exercises aimed at beginning learners of the language. The book can be used as a reader in first- and second-year Korean language courses or by anyone...

Krabat, a poor orphan, becomes the twelfth apprentice at a sinister mill where the master teaches black magic. As he gains power, he realizes the magic traps him and that the mill master is the devil. Only the love of a brave girl offers him a chance to break free.

Emma, a young person from Italy, spends the summer holidays with a German family in Berlin. Actually she just wants to get to know the city and improve her German. But then Rufus, the family dog runs away and the exciting search through the whole city begins!.

A Firenze un ladro misterioso entra nei negozi di calzature e ruba sempre una sola scarpa. Perché? Riuscirà il commissario Tentenna a risolvere il caso? Una storia poliziesca in cui non manca niente, neanche il ritorno di un amore del passato.

"To save Queen Guinevere, who is being held prisoner in the Kingdom of Gorre, will Lancelot risk being dishonoured by going on the defamatory road to doom? Along the journey full of dangerous perils, the brave knight encounters numerous traps set by the evil Meleagant…"--Publisher's website.

Pour sauver la reine Guenievre, prisonniere au royaume de Gorre, Lancelat va-t-il monter sur la charrette des condamnes et se deshonorer?

Chief Vitalstatistix rashly invites his brother-in-law to dine on a stew seasoned with Caesar's laurel wreath, so Asterix and Obelix must go to Rome to fetch those laurels. Hoping to get access to Caesar, they sell themselves as slaves - but can they do a deal with the corrupt Goldenelicius to sw...

Leo is a painter and a passionate cook. Each year he shows his paintings in his pub. This time, the exhibition gets a particularly big response, but unfortunately the success also attracts uninvited guests.

"It narrates the compelling saga of the Florio family, who rose from humble beginnings to become one of the most influential dynasties in 19th-century Sicily."--Publisher's website.