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The Story of My Life

by Helen Keller

Deaf and blind from infancy, Helen Keller tells how one teacher unlocked the entire world for her.

📖 23 chapters, complete ⏱ about 20 minutes a night 📅 a chapter a night finishes it in about 3 weeks
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This book can earn their screen time.

Assign The Story of My Life 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, 23 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 23 chapters the app serves one at a time.

See all 23 chapters
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5I recall many incidents of the summer of 1887 that followed my soul's
Chapter 6
Chapter 7The next important step in my education was learning to read.
Chapter 8The first Christmas after Miss Sullivan came to Tuscumbia was a great
Chapter 9The next important event in my life was my visit to Boston, in May,
Chapter 10Just before the Perkins Institution closed for the summer, it was
Chapter 11
Chapter 12After my first visit to Boston, I spent almost every winter in the
Chapter 13It was in the spring of 1890 that I learned to speak. The impulse to
Chapter 14The winter of 1892 was darkened by the one cloud in my childhood's
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17In the summer of 1894, I attended the meeting at Chautauqua of the
Chapter 18
Chapter 19When I began my second year at the Gilman school, I was full of hope
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23Would that I could enrich this sketch with the names of all those who

Nearby on the shelf

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
ages 11–13
The Story of Mankind
ages 10–13
The Lost World
ages 10–13
The Prisoner of Zenda
ages 11–13

Tonight, The Story of My Life can be the mission.

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

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