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The Box-Car Children

by Gertrude Chandler Warner

Four orphaned kids make a secret home out of an abandoned boxcar and look after each other.

📖 17 chapters, complete ⏱ about 10 minutes a night 📅 a chapter a night finishes it in about 2 weeks
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This book can earn their screen time.

Assign The Box-Car Children 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, 17 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 17 chapters the app serves one at a time.

See all 17 chapters
Chapter 1The Flight
Chapter 2The Second Night
Chapter 3Shelter
Chapter 4A New Home
Chapter 5Housekeeping
Chapter 6Earning A Living
Chapter 7At Home
Chapter 8Building The Dam
Chapter 9Cherry Picking
Chapter 10The Race
Chapter 11More Education
Chapter 12Ginseng
Chapter 13Trouble
Chapter 14Caught
Chapter 15A New Grandfather
Chapter 16A United Family
Chapter 17Safe

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Tonight, The Box-Car Children can be the mission.

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

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