Read Sans famille in Frenchwith every sentence explained

Sans famille by Hector Malot was first published in 1878. In Passage you read the full text in the original French, marked beginner and filed under children and young adult. It runs to about 185,900 words.

"I am a foundling." With these words, an eight-year-old boy begins the adventure of his life.

Rémi grows up happily in the little village of Chavanon with Mother Barberin, whom he loves as his real mother. Then her husband returns from Paris, injured and bitter, and Rémi learns the truth: he was found as a baby on a Paris street. Barberin wants to be rid of him, and sells him to a travelling street performer.

So Rémi takes to the roads of France with old Signor Vitalis, a mysterious, dignified man, and his little troupe: the clever dog Capi, two other dogs and a mischievous monkey named Joli-Cœur. Through rain, snow, hunger and danger, Rémi learns to read, to play music, to perform, and to keep going.

Nobody's Boy is Hector Malot's beloved classic, a moving story of courage and friendship that has been adapted many times, including the famous Japanese animated series Rémi.

Passage sets the book as a quiet, paginated reader in French. Read at your own pace, and when a sentence stops you, tap it. You get:

• a natural translation of that exact sentence,
• a short note on the grammar, in plain words,
• the key words, which you can save with the sentence they came from,
• all of it in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Turkish or Portuguese, whichever you read best.

It's marked beginner, so it's a good first whole book if you know the basics of French and want something you can finish. The words you save come back later in short review games, so the book keeps teaching after you close it.