experience, building essential vocabulary and a strong foundation for independent, fluent reading. It is a complement, an enrichment, a challenge and a rite of passage from textbooks short texts to the real thing: a story, a book, a novel in authentic French. Motivated and capable students will read it non-stop over a week-end, for fun, while others will learn new strategies for extracting knowledge out of every sentence, thus improving mastery of the language. The novel takes place now, with contemporary concerns, interests and lifestyle, and characters with which students can identify. Students on both sides of the Atlantic love text messaging; students learn new terminology and sense the difference between standard versus cool French or slang. This book develops the skills of approaching a text actively: spotting cognates, detecting English roots, and checking meanings through context. Using a detective approach, students grasp the meaning, quickly and proudly.La Maison d Oncle Max provides support and lively ideas for the teachers. In each Activités section, tricky points of grammar are reviewed, exercises mix new and known vocabulary, adding a slew of words similar in both languages as bonus. Optional exercises include oral work, compositions (blogs or journals), cultural (timelines for history, or map filling for geography), and Internet research Oral work: the students act the text s dialogues in class, each keeping the role of their favorite character. Groups can also make videos for fun, exams, or extra creditLa Maison d Oncle Max can be used as a break in the semester (as in the January slump), as a revision at the end of the year, but also as a summer review in July or late August

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