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Three stories can currently be read for free in the app StoryPlanet English, all of them are roughly geared to B1 (Intermediate High) ESL/EAL learners. Learn more about these stories and read them in their entirety via the links below.
If you are an educator, we invite you to download our free Teacher’s Package to use with these StoryPlanet stories.
StoryPlanet stories in the free version of the app
THE MYSTERY SUITCASE
Chrissie takes on a dubious assignment: travel to Hong Kong with a mysterious suitcase for which she will be richly rewarded in cash. Will she succeed?
SISTER AND BROTHER
A dystopian adventure story about animal rights activists embroiled in an evil experiment that tries to separate them. Will their loyalty remain unbroken?
SONNET 29
A paraphrased version of this iconic poem into the language a lovesick teenager might use on social media today: the Bard of Avon as relevant as ever.
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- B1 – Intermediate High
- B2 – Advanced
- Genre: Adventure
- Genre: City life
- Genre: Comedy
- Genre: Crime/Mystery
- Genre: Dark Humor
- Genre: Esoteric/Spiritual
- Genre: Family
- Genre: Fantasy
- Genre: Ghosts
- Genre: Historical
- Genre: Nature
- Genre: Real-life experiences
- Genre: Romance
- Genre: Science Fiction
- Genre: Travel
- Protagonist: Animal
- Protagonist: Child
- Protagonist: Female
- Protagonist: Male
- Teacher's Package: Free
- Teacher's Package: Pro
- Title: A Fish on the Line
- Title: A gift worth fighting for
- Title: A Horse of a Different Color
- Title: A House in Venice
- Title: A Taste of Life
- Title: A Teenager’s Whim
- Title: Alex in Wonderland
- Title: Alphabet Soup
- Title: Attention Seeker
- Title: Beauty from Within
- Title: Breathless
- Title: Burnt Offering
- Title: Case of the Missing Teddy
- Title: Crisp
- Title: Dad Jokes
- Title: Don’t Throw in the Towel
- Title: Firefly
- Title: Freddy Finds a Treasure
- Title: Free Friends
- Title: From the Sky
- Title: Get with the Program
- Title: Getting the hang of it
- Title: Heavy Metal Affair
- Title: Hidden Talents
- Title: Horses Don’t Sweat
- Title: In the Dark
- Title: Izzy the Defiant
- Title: Lady Blue
- Title: Leonard and Leroy
- Title: Living Stones
- Title: Living the Sweet Life
- Title: Lydia Rediscovers Things
- Title: Mia & the Doppelganger
- Title: Mia & the Imposter Mouse
- Title: Mia & the Interns
- Title: Mia & the Missing Wheel
- Title: Mona’s Book Club
- Title: Mr. Know-It-All
- Title: Nine-fold Happiness
- Title: No Place for the Greedy
- Title: NYC
- Title: On thin ice
- Title: One strong coffee to go
- Title: Parrot Eyes
- Title: Pizza
- Title: Shakespeare's Sonnet 29
- Title: Sister and Brother
- Title: Spirit Citizen
- Title: Spring is in the Air
- Title: Survival Instinct
- Title: The Backward Glacier
- Title: The Ballad of John Henry
- Title: The Gift of Giving
- Title: The Girl Who Loved Math
- Title: The Green Glow
- Title: The Hairy Tomato
- Title: The Hole
- Title: The Interstellar Ball
- Title: The Last Urban Holdout
- Title: The Last Wish
- Title: The Lost Angel
- Title: The Lost Postcard
- Title: The Mystery Suitcase
- Title: The Queen Wins
- Title: The Red Bar
- Title: The Snake Tamer
- Title: The Third Eye
- Title: The Truant Princess
- Title: The Umbrella Run
- Title: Together alone
- Title: Two-way delivery
- Title: Undaunted
- Title: What I Live for
- Title: World’s Best Noodle Soup
- Topic: Ableism
- Topic: Accident
- Topic: Acquaintances
- Topic: Activism
- Topic: Addiction
- Topic: Admiration
- Topic: Affection
- Topic: Afterlife
- Topic: Age
- Topic: AI
- Topic: Alice in Wonderland
- Topic: Aliens
- Topic: Altercation
- Topic: America
- Topic: American folklore
- Topic: Anger
- Topic: Animal rights
- Topic: Animals
- Topic: Anxiety
- Topic: Apprenticeship
- Topic: Apps
- Topic: Arctic
- Topic: Arrogance
- Topic: Art
- Topic: Artificial Insemination
- Topic: Artificial Intelligence
- Topic: Artwork
- Topic: Asia
- Topic: Assistance
- Topic: Astronauts
- Topic: Attraction
- Topic: Aversion
- Topic: Awkwardness
- Topic: Baking
- Topic: Banjo
- Topic: Bar
- Topic: Bashfulness
- Topic: being different
- Topic: Berlin Airlift
- Topic: Bicycle
- Topic: Birds
- Topic: Birthday
- Topic: Blindness
- Topic: Board games
- Topic: Books
- Topic: Bravery
- Topic: Breakups
- Topic: Camaraderie
- Topic: Cataract
- Topic: Cats
- Topic: Cave
- Topic: Celebrations
- Topic: Change
- Topic: Cheating
- Topic: Chess
- Topic: Chess grandmaster
- Topic: Christmas
- Topic: Church
- Topic: City and countryside
- Topic: Cleverness
- Topic: Clichés
- Topic: Climate change
- Topic: Cold War
- Topic: Comfort
- Topic: Communication
- Topic: Community
- Topic: Competition
- Topic: Computers
- Topic: Conceit
- Topic: Confidence
- Topic: Conflict
- Topic: Connection
- Topic: Contentment
- Topic: Contest
- Topic: Cooperation
- Topic: Coronavirus
- Topic: Counseling
- Topic: Coup
- Topic: Couple
- Topic: Courage
- Topic: Covid-19 pandemic
- Topic: Creativity
- Topic: Crime
- Topic: Cyberspace
- Topic: Dancing
- Topic: Danger
- Topic: Dating
- Topic: Day off
- Topic: Debt
- Topic: Defiance
- Topic: Delivery
- Topic: Dementia
- Topic: Desperation
- Topic: Destiny
- Topic: Detective work
- Topic: Determination
- Topic: Devotion
- Topic: Diabetes
- Topic: Disagreement
- Topic: Discovery
- Topic: Discrimination
- Topic: Dislike
- Topic: Diversity
- Topic: Dogs
- Topic: Doppelganger
- Topic: Doubt
- Topic: Douglas Adams
- Topic: Dreams
- Topic: Duty
- Topic: Dystopia
- Topic: E-mail
- Topic: E-Readers
- Topic: Education
- Topic: Embarrassment
- Topic: Empathy
- Topic: Encouragement
- Topic: England
- Topic: Enjoyment
- Topic: Environment
- Topic: Europe
- Topic: Evolution
- Topic: Exclusion
- Topic: Exhibition
- Topic: Extraterrestrials
- Topic: Fairytales
- Topic: Family
- Topic: Famous people
- Topic: Fate
- Topic: Favoritism
- Topic: Fear
- Topic: Felony
- Topic: Fiddle
- Topic: Fighters
- Topic: Finding common ground
- Topic: Fire
- Topic: Fishing
- Topic: Fleeing
- Topic: Flooding
- Topic: Food
- Topic: Forgetfulness
- Topic: Fraud
- Topic: Friends
- Topic: Friendship
- Topic: Games
- Topic: Geek culture
- Topic: Gender stereotypes
- Topic: Generational conflict
- Topic: Genius
- Topic: Giftedness
- Topic: Gifts
- Topic: Global warming
- Topic: Goldsmith
- Topic: Graffiti
- Topic: Grandchildren
- Topic: Grandparents
- Topic: Greed
- Topic: Grief
- Topic: Group
- Topic: Guilt
- Topic: Gun
- Topic: Hamsters
- Topic: Happiness
- Topic: Healing
- Topic: Health
- Topic: Heartache
- Topic: Heartbreak
- Topic: Hedgehogs
- Topic: Help
- Topic: Helplessness
- Topic: Heritage
- Topic: Heroes
- Topic: Hidden gems
- Topic: Historical figures
- Topic: Holidays
- Topic: Hong Kong
- Topic: Hope
- Topic: Horses
- Topic: Humanitarian aid
- Topic: Humor
- Topic: Ice
- Topic: Ice skating
- Topic: Identity
- Topic: Imagination
- Topic: Impaired vision
- Topic: Improvement
- Topic: In vitro fertilization
- Topic: Incompatibility
- Topic: Inhibition
- Topic: Injustice
- Topic: Insecurity
- Topic: Instagram
- Topic: Instruments
- Topic: Insurrection
- Topic: Intelligence
- Topic: International understanding
- Topic: Internet
- Topic: Internship
- Topic: Investigation
- Topic: Ireland
- Topic: Island
- Topic: Isolation
- Topic: Italy
- Topic: Jail
- Topic: Jeweler
- Topic: Jewelry
- Topic: Job
- Topic: Job interview
- Topic: Jogging
- Topic: John Henry
- Topic: Jokes
- Topic: Joy
- Topic: Judit Polgár
- Topic: Karma
- Topic: Katherine G. Johnson
- Topic: Languages
- Topic: Lapland
- Topic: Laptops
- Topic: Learning
- Topic: Letters
- Topic: Lewis Carroll
- Topic: Life and death
- Topic: Lisbon
- Topic: Loneliness
- Topic: Lost
- Topic: Love
- Topic: Love life
- Topic: Lovesickness
- Topic: Luck
- Topic: Lunar station
- Topic: Mail
- Topic: Materialism
- Topic: Mathematics
- Topic: Meal
- Topic: Memories
- Topic: Mental health
- Topic: Metropolis
- Topic: Military
- Topic: Mindreading
- Topic: Missing
- Topic: Mistaken identity
- Topic: Mix up
- Topic: Mobile phones
- Topic: Money problems
- Topic: Moped
- Topic: Motorcycle
- Topic: Mountains
- Topic: Moving house
- Topic: Music
- Topic: Mutation
- Topic: Myths and legends
- Topic: NASA
- Topic: Nature
- Topic: Neighbors
- Topic: New York City
- Topic: Next door
- Topic: Nightlife
- Topic: Novels
- Topic: NYC
- Topic: Occupation
- Topic: Operative
- Topic: Organ smuggling
- Topic: Organ transplantation
- Topic: Outer space
- Topic: Outsider
- Topic: Oxford
- Topic: Paintings
- Topic: Paraphrase
- Topic: Parents
- Topic: Partnership
- Topic: PC
- Topic: Perseverance
- Topic: Pirates
- Topic: Pity
- Topic: Play
- Topic: Playing hooky
- Topic: Playthings
- Topic: Poetry
- Topic: Police
- Topic: Portugal
- Topic: Post-apocalyptic world
- Topic: Postcards
- Topic: Prejudice
- Topic: Presents
- Topic: Pretentiousness
- Topic: Princess
- Topic: Prison
- Topic: Proficiency
- Topic: Programmers
- Topic: Protection
- Topic: Public speaking
- Topic: Public transport
- Topic: Puns
- Topic: Purse thief
- Topic: Quarantine
- Topic: Racism
- Topic: Radiation
- Topic: Radioactivity
- Topic: Rage
- Topic: Railway
- Topic: Reading
- Topic: Rebellion
- Topic: Recovery
- Topic: Refuge
- Topic: Refugees
- Topic: Reincarnation
- Topic: Relationships
- Topic: Relatives
- Topic: Repairs
- Topic: Rescue
- Topic: Research
- Topic: Resemblance
- Topic: Resilience
- Topic: Resolve
- Topic: Responsibility
- Topic: Reunion
- Topic: Revolution
- Topic: Rivalry
- Topic: Role models
- Topic: Running
- Topic: Sadness
- Topic: School
- Topic: Science
- Topic: Sculpture
- Topic: Sculpturing
- Topic: Search
- Topic: Search for happiness
- Topic: Secret agent
- Topic: Secrets
- Topic: Security
- Topic: Segregation
- Topic: Self-assurance
- Topic: Self-determination
- Topic: Self-esteem
- Topic: Self-reliance
- Topic: Self-sufficiency
- Topic: Self-worth
- Topic: Sexism
- Topic: Shame
- Topic: shared apartment
- Topic: Sherlock Holmes
- Topic: Shyness
- Topic: Siblings
- Topic: Similarity
- Topic: Skills
- Topic: Slavery
- Topic: Smartphones
- Topic: Smarts
- Topic: Snow
- Topic: Soccer
- Topic: Social media
- Topic: Soldiers
- Topic: Solidarity
- Topic: Solitude
- Topic: Sorrow
- Topic: Soviet blockade
- Topic: Space travel
- Topic: Special abilities
- Topic: Speed dating
- Topic: Sports
- Topic: Spray paint
- Topic: Spy
- Topic: STEM
- Topic: Stockpiling
- Topic: Street art
- Topic: Stubbornness
- Topic: Student exchange
- Topic: Superheroes
- Topic: Superpowers
- Topic: Support
- Topic: Survival
- Topic: Switzerland
- Topic: Sword
- Topic: Talent
- Topic: Teamwork
- Topic: Technology
- Topic: Teenagers
- Topic: Telepathy
- Topic: Therapist
- Topic: Therapy
- Topic: Thief
- Topic: Threat
- Topic: Timidity
- Topic: Toys
- Topic: Tragedy
- Topic: Training
- Topic: Trains
- Topic: Travel
- Topic: Trouble
- Topic: Trust
- Topic: Twin Peaks
- Topic: Twins
- Topic: Umbrella
- Topic: Uncertainty
- Topic: Understanding
- Topic: Unfair
- Topic: Uniqueness
- Topic: University
- Topic: Unusual
- Topic: Uprising
- Topic: Vacation
- Topic: Vandalism
- Topic: Veganism
- Topic: Vehicles
- Topic: Venice
- Topic: Vietnam
- Topic: Virtual reality
- Topic: Visual impairment
- Topic: Vivisection
- Topic: War and peace
- Topic: Weapon
- Topic: Wheelchair
- Topic: Winter
- Topic: Wisdom
- Topic: Wisecracks
- Topic: Wishes
- Topic: World War II
- Topic: Writing
- Topic: writing software
- Topic: WWII
- Topic: Xenophobia
- Topic: Youths
- Version: Free
- Version: Pro
- Writer: Anette John
- Writer: Bella A. Brown
- Writer: David P. Steel
- Writer: Gabriele Ritter
- Writer: Jim Peterson
- Writer: Johanna da Rocha Abreu
- Writer: Leonore Kleinkauf
- Writer: Peter F. Ohman
- Writer: Vanessa Appoh
- Writer: William Shakespeare
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