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Available nowBook 1 · RN1 / Early N5
A Place to Begin
はじめの町
Ten connected stories follow Maya through her first month in みどり町, with calm digital support whenever the paperback reader wants it.
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Available nowBook 2 · RN1 / Early N5
A Place to Share
つながる町
Ten connected stories follow Rina through her first week in みどり町 as she moves from receiving help to helping someone else.
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Available nowBook 3 · RN1 / Early N5
A Place to Explore
自転車で広がる町
Ten connected Early N5 stories follow Maya as a bicycle opens new routes, interests, and friendships around town.
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Available nowBook 4 · RN1 / Early N5
A Place to Create
みんなの作品
Ten connected Early N5 stories follow Rina and friends as they plan, make, revise, and share a community exhibition.
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Available nowBook 5 · RN1 / Early N5
A Place to Choose
それぞれの週末
Ten connected Early N5 stories help Maya and her friends compare practical choices and decide what matters most.
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Available nowBook 6 · RN2 / N5
Beyond the Routine
いつもの先へ
Ten connected N5 stories move beyond daily routines into responsibility, coordination, and community participation.
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Available nowBook 7 · RN2 / N5
Beyond the Timetable
予定の先へ
Ten connected N5 stories follow plans that change, trips that require judgment, and people who learn to adapt together.
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Available nowBook 8 · RN2 / N5
Beyond the City Lights
星の見える町
Ten connected N5 stories take the cast to Hoshimi Town, where new work and local relationships widen their world.
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Available nowBook 9 · RN2 / N5
Beyond the Crossroads
選んだ道の先へ
Ten connected N5 stories explore work, home, and relationship decisions as familiar paths begin to branch.
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Available nowBook 10 · RN2 / N5
Beyond the Gathering
これからも、この町で
Ten connected N5 stories bring the wider community together and turn the series' accumulated relationships into a shared future.
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Arriving August 31
Continue with Books 11–20
All ten new volumes are available for Kindle preorder and are scheduled for release on August 31, 2026. Their free, book-required companion units are ready here for vocabulary, grammar, comprehension, and review.
Preorder · August 31, 2026Book 11 · RN2 / N5
Beyond the Photograph
一枚の写真に残る町
Ten RN2 / N5 chapters build sustained reading through evidence language, sequencing, uncertainty, and careful rereading.
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Preorder · August 31, 2026Book 12 · RN2 / N5
Beyond the Missing Road
地図から消えた道
Ten RN2 / N5 chapters practice maps, routes, comparison, and the language used to preserve conflicting accounts.
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Preorder · August 31, 2026Book 13 · RN2 / N5
Beyond the Two Towns
二つの町をつないだカップ
Ten RN2 / N5 chapters reinforce reported speech, conditions, provenance, and careful cross-town comparison.
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Preorder · August 31, 2026Book 14 · RN2 / N5
Beyond One Name
みんなの手で直した自転車
Ten RN2 / N5 chapters practice attribution, hearsay, evidence limits, and language for shared contributions.
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Preorder · August 31, 2026Book 15 · RN2 / N5
Beyond the First Record
町の記録をひらく
Ten RN2 / N5 chapters practice source tracking, versioning, corrections, and responsible record keeping.
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Preorder · August 31, 2026Book 16 · RN3 / N5–N4 Bridge
What the Page Could Not Hold
紙に残らなかった声
Ten RN3 / N5-N4 bridge chapters develop conditional nuance, reported meaning, and attention to source context.
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Preorder · August 31, 2026Book 17 · RN3 / N5–N4 Bridge
What the Photograph Left Out
写真の外にあった一日
Ten RN3 / N5-N4 bridge chapters practice multiple viewpoints, reports, inference, and responsible qualification.
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Preorder · August 31, 2026Book 18 · RN3 / N5–N4 Bridge
What We Chose to Protect
守ることを選んだ話
Ten RN3 / N5-N4 bridge chapters strengthen language for consent, preservation, publication, and change over time.
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Preorder · August 31, 2026Book 19 · RN3 / N5–N4 Bridge
What Three Towns Shared
三つの町を渡った鐘
Ten RN3 / N5-N4 bridge chapters reinforce passive and causative forms, provenance, and shared stewardship.
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Preorder · August 31, 2026Book 20 · RN3 / N5–N4 Bridge
What We Keep Listening For
話を聞きつづける町
Ten RN3 / N5-N4 bridge chapters practice bias, access, uncertainty, and language for ongoing listening.
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Absolute-beginner support, one reading pair at a time
Beginner Readers 1–20 assume you can slowly recognize hiragana and katakana. Each optional companion starts with four core words with romaji and audio, then opens into complete word and grammar guides, gentle book-in-hand checks, and adaptive review limited to those four words and the main pattern. Your book remains complete on its own.
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