Collection: Language Learning Fiction

Till, a fool who is always ready to joke and prank. Funny stories about Germany's most famous joker, the protagonist of the popular book from 1510, retold in simplified form.

Tim and Claudia are twins, even though they are very different from each other. It's summer, school is over, they are finally on vacation .. A quiet vacation? Not at all! Their friend Willi is missing.

The story tells of young Belgian reporter Tintin and his dog Snowy, who are sent to the Soviet Union to report on the policies of Joseph Stalin's Bolshevik government. Tintin's intent to expose the regime's secrets prompts agents from the Soviet secret police, the OGPU, to hunt him down with the ...

Tintin's friend Chang is aboard a plane which crashes in Tibet. Tintin goes to find him and nearly dies at the hands of the Yeti.

Story designed to teach German.

Fifteen years after leaving the village, Fiz, current police inspector discovers internal corruption of police forces. The smugglers networks have been converted to drug trafficking. Vitor and Leda, his boyhood friends have a son and working in the service of Mariscal, owner of almost everything ...

Follow Ken Kaneki, a student whose life is turned upside down after an encounter with a ghoul. Now caught between two worlds, he must fight to survive.

"This prize-winning book is both an illustrated tour of a Tokyo rarely seen in travel guides and an artist's warm, funny, visually rich, and always entertaining graphic memoir."--Page 2 of cover.

A series of original fiction and adaptations of international stories for learners of French. All the stories look at topics relevant to teenagers and the accompanying audio-CD retells the story in a lively and attractive way. Vocabulary explanations are included in the footnotes and an answer ke...

This novella recounts an avaricious moneylender's attempts to restore his son's failing health through acts of charity.