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Black Beauty

by Anna Sewell

A horse tells his own life story, from a sunny meadow through hard masters and back again.

📖 49 chapters, complete ⏱ about 10 minutes a night 📅 a chapter a night finishes it in about 7 weeks
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This book can earn their screen time.

Assign Black Beauty as a mission and pick the schedule: every day, school nights, weekends, or one chapter a week. The app serves the next chapter each time and keeps the bookmark.

📚 They read it in the app

The full text, 49 chapters, on their own device. No separate book to buy or lose.

🎤 They prove it out loud

At the end of a chapter the app highlights a short passage and your child reads it aloud. Mak listens and checks it against the page.

⚡ The screen time is earned

Pass, and the XP lands. Screen time comes from the book, not the feed.

What's inside

The complete book, split into 49 chapters the app serves one at a time.

See all 49 chapters
Chapter 1My Early Home
Chapter 2The Hunt
Chapter 3My Breaking In
Chapter 4Birtwick Park
Chapter 5A Fair Start
Chapter 6Liberty
Chapter 7Ginger
Chapter 8Ginger's Story Continued
Chapter 9Merrylegs
Chapter 10A Talk in the Orchard
Chapter 11Plain Speaking
Chapter 12A Stormy Day
Chapter 13The Devil's Trade Mark
Chapter 14James Howard
Chapter 15The Old Hostler
Chapter 16The Fire
Chapter 17John Manly's Talk
Chapter 18Going for the Doctor
Chapter 19Only Ignorance
Chapter 20Joe Green
Chapter 21The Parting
Chapter 22Earlshall
Chapter 23A Strike for Liberty
Chapter 24The Lady Anne, or a Runaway Horse
Chapter 25Reuben Smith
Chapter 26How it Ended
Chapter 27Ruined and Going Downhill
Chapter 28A Job Horse and His Drivers
Chapter 29Cockneys
Chapter 30A Thief
Chapter 31A Humbug
Chapter 32A Horse Fair
Chapter 33A London Cab Horse
Chapter 34An Old War Horse
Chapter 35Jerry Barker
Chapter 36The Sunday Cab
Chapter 37The Golden Rule
Chapter 38Dolly and a Real Gentleman
Chapter 39Seedy Sam
Chapter 40Poor Ginger
Chapter 41The Butcher
Chapter 42The Election
Chapter 43A Friend in Need
Chapter 44Old Captain and His Successor
Chapter 45Jerry's New Year
Chapter 46Jakes and the Lady
Chapter 47Hard Times
Chapter 48Farmer Thoroughgood and His Grandson Willie
Chapter 49My Last Home

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Tonight, Black Beauty can be the mission.

Assign it in about a minute. The first read-aloud usually earns a grin.

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