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At the Back of the North Wind

by George MacDonald

A poor stable boy rides the night sky with the beautiful North Wind herself.

📖 36 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 At the Back of the North Wind 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, 36 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 36 chapters the app serves one at a time.

See all 36 chapters
Chapter 1THE HAY-LOFT
Chapter 2THE LAWN
Chapter 3NORTH WIND
Chapter 4THE SUMMER-HOUSE
Chapter 5OUT IN THE STORM
Chapter 6THE CATHEDRAL
Chapter 7THE EAST WINDOW
Chapter 8HOW DIAMOND GOT TO THE BACK OF THE NORTH WIND
Chapter 9HOW DIAMOND GOT HOME AGAIN
Chapter 10WHO MET DIAMOND AT SANDWICH
Chapter 11THE SEASIDE
Chapter 12OLD DIAMOND
Chapter 13THE MEWS
Chapter 14DIAMOND MAKES A BEGINNING
Chapter 15DIAMOND GOES ON
Chapter 16THE DRUNKEN CABMAN
Chapter 17DIAMOND'S FRIENDS
Chapter 18DIAMOND LEARNS TO READ
Chapter 19SAL'S NANNY
Chapter 20MR. RAYMOND'S RIDDLE
Chapter 21THE EARLY BIRD
Chapter 22ANOTHER EARLY BIRD
Chapter 23DIAMOND'S DREAM
Chapter 24DIAMOND TAKES A FARE THE WRONG WAY RIGHT
Chapter 25THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
Chapter 26LITTLE DAYLIGHT
Chapter 27RUBY
Chapter 28NANNY'S DREAM
Chapter 29THE NORTH WIND DOTH BLOW
Chapter 30DIAMOND AND RUBY
Chapter 31THE PROSPECT BRIGHTENS
Chapter 32IN THE COUNTRY
Chapter 33I MAKE DIAMOND'S ACQUAINTANCE
Chapter 34DIAMOND QUESTIONS NORTH WIND
Chapter 35ONCE MORE
Chapter 36AT THE BACK OF THE NORTH WIND

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