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The House on the Cliff

by Franklin W. Dixon

Hardy Boys #2: a haunted-looking house above the bay hides smugglers, and their father goes missing.

📖 25 chapters, complete ⏱ about 10 minutes a night 📅 a chapter a night finishes it in about 4 weeks
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This book can earn their screen time.

Assign The House on the Cliff 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, 25 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 25 chapters the app serves one at a time.

See all 25 chapters
Chapter 1THE HAUNTED HOUSE
Chapter 2THE STORM
Chapter 3EMPTY TOOL BOXES
Chapter 4THE CHASE IN THE BAY
Chapter 5THE RESCUE
Chapter 6SNACKLEY
Chapter 7BOUND AND GAGGED
Chapter 8THE STOLEN WITNESS
Chapter 9THE STRANGE MESSAGE
Chapter 10THE VAIN SEARCH
Chapter 11THE CAP ON THE PEG
Chapter 12POINTED QUESTIONS
Chapter 13A PLAN OF ATTACK
Chapter 14PRIVATE PROPERTY
Chapter 15SMUGGLERS
Chapter 16THE SECRET PASSAGE
Chapter 17THE CHAMBER IN THE CLIFF
Chapter 18A STARTLING DISCOVERY
Chapter 19CAPTURED
Chapter 20DIRE THREATS
Chapter 21QUICK WORK
Chapter 22INTO THE HAUNTED HOUSE
Chapter 23RESCUE
Chapter 24THE ROUND-UP
Chapter 25THE MYSTERY EXPLAINED

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

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