Our young heroes - American exchange students - and their French friends encounter unexpected experiences and adventures during the Americans’ stay in France. These stories feature exciting mystery adventures to captivate the interest of beginning French students, and offer cultural highlights interspersed throughout all four stories to acquaint readers with local customs in various areas of France. The four complete adventure stories each contain illustrations, questions, and a complete vocabulary list to reinforce structure and vocabulary taught in beginning French. Sur la route de la contrebande. Shady characters, highways, trucks, and mysterious loads smuggled from Italy into France are just the kinds of traps our friends would fall into. But then, what an exciting way to travel through France, unraveling a smuggling ring surrounded by scoundrels!