We have published two books for learners of Portuguese



Question: What do you do when you are afraid that the police will catch your art thief father and put him in jail forever?
Answer: You open a hamburger restaurant to help him launder the illegal money, of course.
This is the story of a girl who learns that you cannot change your parents, but you don’t have to follow their bad decisions either. You can live your own life… maybe.
“Hambúrgueres normais” is the graphic novel prequel to “Superhambúrgueres”. These books will help you learn Portuguese. Designed for beginners through intermediate learners, each page includes an English translation of the Portuguese text placed discretely along the bottom margin. Read with a bookmark covering the English, and peek only when you need it. This system makes reading in Portuguese enjoyable, without the annoying task of flipping back to a glossary. Easy, enjoyable reading leads to better reading proficiency!
397 pages, Portuguese to English translation included.

Superhambúrgueres is a light novel for learners of Portuguese appropriate for the second year of language study.
Plot summary: Rodney is a smart high school student who has to pay for his own AP tests. Everybody else he knows has parents who actually pay for things, but he has to work at a hamburger restaurant to earn enough for his exam fees. Of course, Rodney doesn’t take the job too seriously. He would rather spend the time studying, so he devises a plan to make sure there are never any customers to interrupt him. Nobody comes to the hamburger joint where the employee never washes his hands… well, almost nobody. Two days later, when Rodney is being pursued by a ruthless drug trafficker, he barely has time to regret his unsanitary ways.
103 pages, full glossary included, low-frequency words glossed in the text.
I used this book for sustain silent reading with my classes and I have had great feedback from them. This past week, one of my students wrote: “This is an easy, comical book. I enjoyed it very much. It’s funny and it’s not boring at all”.
Jamison Hughes
I plan to use it next year for my students. It’s a good book–worth the price.
This little book is just fine. It intrigued me when I came across it because it was written and illustrated by teen-aged language learners (I’m assuming in the U.S.) and I wanted to see how they did. It’s about a teen working in a hamburger joint who becomes involved with high intrigue. Campy, but cute. The language level is perfect; the dialog is believable, and there’s enough of a story to keep you going … if you’re trying to learn a language, which I’ve been doing on my own for the past 15 years through an assortment of materials like this. This was just another of my impulse purchases to see if it would be helpful. Of course it is! I lent it to my 9th grader for his study and also to show him that regular kids can create this kind of thing for other regular kids.
Yeysk