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Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates

by Mary Mapes Dodge

A poor Dutch boy and his sister chase the great skating race while hoping to heal their father.

📖 33 chapters, complete ⏱ about 15 minutes a night 📅 a chapter a night finishes it in about 5 weeks
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This book can earn their screen time.

Assign Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates 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, 33 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 33 chapters the app serves one at a time.

See all 33 chapters
Chapter 1DEAR BOYS AND GIRLS AT HOME:
Chapter 2Hans and Gretel
Chapter 3The Silver Skates
Chapter 4Hans and Gretel Find a Friend
Chapter 5Shadows in the Home
Chapter 6Hans Has His Way
Chapter 7Introducing Jacob Poot and His Cousin
Chapter 8The Festival of Saint Nicholas
Chapter 9What the Boys Saw and Did in Amsterdam
Chapter 10Big Manias and Little Oddities
Chapter 11On the Way to Haarlem
Chapter 12Haarlem--The Boys Hear Voices
Chapter 13The Man With Four Heads
Chapter 14Friends in Need
Chapter 15On the Canal
Chapter 16Jacob Poot Changes the Plan
Chapter 17The Red Lion Becomes Dangerous
Chapter 18Before the Court
Chapter 19The Beleaguered Cities
Chapter 20The Merchant Prince and the Sister-Princess
Chapter 21Through the Hague
Chapter 22A Day of Rest
Chapter 23Boys and Girls
Chapter 24Gretel and Hilda
Chapter 25Bones and Tongues
Chapter 26A New Alarm
Chapter 27The Father’s Return
Chapter 28The Thousand Guilders
Chapter 29Looking For Work
Chapter 30The Fairy Godmother
Chapter 31The Mysterious Watch
Chapter 32Joy in the Cottage
Chapter 33Mysterious Disappearance of Thomas Higgs

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