When writer Lauren Collins falls for a Frenchman in her early thirties, she agrees to relocate to France and study the language, adapt a new identity, and embrace the mishaps and joys along the way.
Relates the stories of twelve-year-old Ben, who loses his mother and his hearing in a short time frame and decides to leave his Minnesota home in 1977 to seek the father he has never known in New York City; and Rose, who lives with her father but feels compelled to search for what is missing in her life. Ben's story is told in words; Rose's in pictures. Presented in French.
The author relates, in graphic format, her experiences after she injured her two front teeth and had to have surgeries and wear embarrassing braces and headgear, all while also dealing with the trials and tribulations of middle school.
Four English school children find their way through the back of a wardrobe into the magic land of Narnia and assist Aslan, the golden lion, to triumph over the Sorci?re Blanche who has cursed the land with eternal winter.
a beginner's dual-language book / [French version]
Appelbaum, Stanley
2008
Contains fifty readings from works of literature such as "Les Mis?rables," "Madame Bovary," and "The Three Musketeers," presented in side-by-side French and English.