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The Coral Island

by R. M. Ballantyne

Three boys shipwrecked on a Pacific island turn paradise into the adventure of their lives.

📖 35 chapters, complete ⏱ about 20 minutes a night 📅 a chapter a night finishes it in about 5 weeks
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Assign The Coral Island 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, 35 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 35 chapters the app serves one at a time.

See all 35 chapters
Chapter 1The beginning--My early life and character--I thirst for adventure in
Chapter 2The departure--The sea--My companions--Some account of the wonderful
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6An excursion into the interior, in which we make many valuable and
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12Something wrong with the tank--Jack's wisdom and Peterkin's
Chapter 13
Chapter 14Strange peculiarity of the tides--Also of the twilight--Peterkin's
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21Sagacious and moral remarks in regard to life--A sail!--An unexpected
Chapter 22
Chapter 23Bloody Bill--Dark surmises--A strange sail, and a strange crew, and a
Chapter 24Bloody Bill is communicative and sagacious--Unpleasant
Chapter 25The Sandal-wood party--Native children's games, somewhat
Chapter 26
Chapter 27Reflections--The wounded man--The squall--True consolation--Death.
Chapter 28Alone on the deep--Necessity the mother of invention--A valuable book
Chapter 29The effect of a cannon-shot--A happy reunion of a somewhat moist
Chapter 30
Chapter 31A strange and bloody battle--The lion bearded in his den--Frightful
Chapter 32An unexpected discovery, and a bold, reckless defiance, with its
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35Conclusion.

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