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Lad: A Dog

by Albert Payson Terhune

True-hearted stories of a collie whose courage and loyalty made him famous across America.

📖 12 chapters, complete ⏱ about 45 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 Lad: A Dog 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, 12 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 12 chapters the app serves one at a time.

See all 12 chapters
Chapter 1HIS MATE
Chapter 2"QUIET"
Chapter 3A MIRACLE OF TWO
Chapter 4HIS LITTLE SON
Chapter 5FOR A BIT OF RIBBON
Chapter 6LOST!
Chapter 7THE THROWBACK
Chapter 8THE GOLD HAT
Chapter 9SPEAKING OF UTILITY
Chapter 10THE KILLER
Chapter 11WOLF
Chapter 12IN THE DAY OF BATTLE

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

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