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Le jour où je quittai la maison pour la ville

The day I left home for the city

An illustrated Global Storybooks reader: The day I left home for the city.

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An illustrated Global Storybooks reader: The day I left home for the city.

This free chapter contains 1 learner-friendly sentences. The complete book has 16 chapters.

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Publisher: Global Storybooks / Storybooks Canada
Creators: Lesley Koyi, Ursula Nafula (writer), Brian Wambi (illustrator)
Translation: Alexandra Danahy
This edition: Published Global Storybooks target and English source files aligned page by page; Storyglot adds grading and machine gloss scaffolds verified through automated editorial QA.

Original story ↗ · Source edition ↗ · CC BY 4.0 ↗

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