The best Children's Intermediate Readers books: Reddit reviews

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Amazon also has this one (and others in the "related" section) that seems to be a more recent edition. Not sure what you mean by a "sentence for sentence translation", but I assume it should be fairly close. The English edition isn't like an entirely new story loosely based on the original French.

Nicholas

It takes place in the 50’s in France. It’s a series of books. Here are more info about them on wiki

Every french people know it. Even the younger generation because they made multiple movies about it since 2009.

You can try StarWars, tho I do not recommend it - there is too much scary monsters.

Airbender maybe.

Not exactly Tao but supposedly very good is this book:

https://www.amazon.com/Tiger-Tiger-True-Questions-Smile-Again/dp/140192560X

Not sure if there is progression, but I see this one all the time and it's definitely Middle Grade: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1449494862. At least to look into.

Breathe A Ghost Story?

Breathe A Ghost Story With Green/Blue Cover

lol that's not even close to what i said. assuming you are an adult person, your decision to pretend that the inherent politics affecting our times do not exist is quite frankly pathetic.

in the meantime, i'd recommend you purchased this ASAP and transition into someone who can read

https://www.amazon.com/Hooked-Phonics-Learn-Read-Transitional/dp/1940384206/ref=sr_1_4?dchild=1&keywords=hooked+on+phonics&qid=1634132754&sr=8-4

really? You'd get arrested for this book? Call-Me-Max-Friends-Book

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"When Max starts school, the teacher hesitates to call out the name on
the attendance sheet. Something doesn't seem to fit. Max lets he know
the name he wants to be called by--a boy's name. This begins Max's
journey as he makes new friends and reveals his feelings about his
identity to his parents. Written with warmth and sensitivity by trans
writer Kyle Lukoff, this book is a sweet and age-appropriate
introduction to what it means to be transgender."

Cue the outrage!

This was just $0.99, so I splurged and picked it up for my kindle. I'll read one of the self contained stories out loud to myself sometimes in the evening to work on my pronunciation. It's no Wayside School is Falling Down, but for the price I'm okay with that.

I think this is the book you are talking about, and I never thought of it as a metaphor for the drug war...

I'm always amazed when I run into others who read relatively obscure books from my childhood. :)