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One story for each level, told a short chapter at a time, by email each morning if you like. Each chapter brings in a few new words and keeps using the ones before, so the story grows with you.
How to read it
- Read at your level: you should know about eight words in ten. Pick the level where that's true.
- Look at the title and the set-up line first. They give you the scene.
- Read the whole chapter through without stopping to look things up. Just follow the story.
- Pause: what happened, and to whom? The questions help.
- Read it again with the help on: the words glossed, the English for each sentence, the notes.
- Keep going: the next chapter comes tomorrow.
Make a free account and the next chapter comes each morning, at your level and your pace.
The stories
Le Chat noir A1
The Black Cat
Léa has just moved to Albi, a small town in the south of France, to study. On her first morning a black cat is waiting at her door with a scrap of paper, and on the paper is a number. Every morning the cat comes back, and every morning the number is different.
20 chapters · complete
L'Arbre de la promesse A2
The Promise Tree
Inès has a new part-time job in a small second-hand bookshop in Vitré, an old town in Brittany. In a box of old books she finds a photo of two children under a big tree beside a chapel, and on the back a promise: next year, at the fête, meet me under this tree. The old woman who runs the shop says she has never seen them. Inès is sure she is not telling the truth.
20 chapters · complete
Le Restaurant d'en face B1
The Restaurant Across the Street
Pauline is twenty-four and runs a tiny restaurant of her own in a street in Lyon. Her cheese soup is what everyone comes for, and the cheese comes by post from Fernand, an old cheesemaker in a mountain village. This month the parcel doesn't come, Fernand doesn't answer the phone, and a big, loud chain restaurant has just opened across the street, with a queue round the corner and a young cook who seems to know far too much about Pauline's cheese.
20 chapters · complete
L'Hôtel Lacaze B2
The Hotel Lacaze
Margaux has taken a job at the Hotel Lacaze, an old family hotel in a little spa town in the Pyrenees, but she is not really there to work: her company wants to buy the hotel, and her boss has sent her to find out what it is worth. From her first night things start going wrong, one after another, and always when it matters most. Someone at the hotel is not what they seem. Then again, neither is Margaux.
20 chapters · complete
La ville où l'horloge s'est arrêtée C1
The Town Where the Clock Stopped
For half a century the clock in the tower of Valbrune, a small snowbound town in the Jura mountains, has stood at three, and the town lives on the story of why: on the night of the great snow, they say, it stopped by itself. Now the mayor has hired Claire, a clock repairer from the city, to make it go again, and nobody in town seems to want her to. On her first night, the bell of the stopped clock rings once.
20 chapters · complete