About Marie Claire
Marie Claire is a native English speaker, certified Business English, CAEL, CELPIP, IELTS, TOEFL, & TESOL tutor, professional writer, and book publisher with 30+ years of Canadian business experience. She is the founder and owner of both Marie Claire ESL and Polished Publishing Group (PPG), as well as the author of a young adult fiction series comprising six novels and six accompanying English as a Second Language (ESL) workbooks.
Six Young Adult Fiction Novels
You can improve your English reading skills by using these six Jane series novels, in either ebook or paperback format, as part of your ESL studies. But that’s not all! Six audiobook versions of these young adult novels will also be created to help you practice your English listening skills. This will aid you in understanding and communicating more confidently with native English speakers in North America.
Six Supplemental ESL Workbooks
Each Jane series young adult fiction novel will have a supplemental ESL workbook to go along with it. These workbooks, available in both ebook and paperback format, are designed to help you further improve your English skills through both self-study and individualized online tutoring:
- Workbook #1: English Grammar (The Eight Parts of Speech)
- Workbook #2: English Writing
- Workbook #3: English Pronunciation (Canadian/American)
- Workbook #4: Communicate Like Native English Speakers
- Workbook #5: Practice Tests for English Language Proficiency
- Workbook #6: English for Job Interview Preparation
Using all six books in the Jane young adult novel series, combined with the six supplemental ESL workbooks and individualized online tutoring, ESL students can improve their English skills in all of these areas: reading, listening, grammar, writing, speaking, pronunciation, CAEL/CELPIP/IELTS/TOEFL exam preparation, and job interview preparation.

