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The Peterkin Papers

by Lucretia P. Hale

The silliest family in town can't solve the simplest problems, until the wise Lady from Philadelphia speaks.

📖 22 stories, complete ⏱ about 15 minutes a night 📅 a story a night finishes it in about 3 weeks
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This book can earn their screen time.

Assign The Peterkin Papers as a mission and pick the schedule: every day, school nights, weekends, or one story a week. The app serves the next story each time and keeps the bookmark.

📚 They read it in the app

The full text, 22 stories, on their own device. No separate book to buy or lose.

🎤 They prove it out loud

At the end of a story 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 22 stories the app serves one at a time.

See all 22 stories
Story 1To Meggie
Story 2The Lady Who Put Salt In Her Coffee.
Story 3About Elizabeth Eliza's Piano.
Story 4The Peterkins Try To Become Wise.
Story 5Mrs. Peterkin Wishes To Go To Drive.
Story 6At Dinner.
Story 7Why The Peterkins Had A Late Dinner.
Story 8The Peterkins' Summer Journey.
Story 9The Peterkins Snowed-Up.
Story 10The Peterkins Decide To Keep A Cow.
Story 11The Peterkins' Christmas-Tree.
Story 12Mrs. Peterkin's Tea-Party.
Story 13The Peterkins Too Late For The Exhibition.
Story 14The Peterkins Celebrate The Fourth Of July.
Story 15The Peterkins' Picnic.
Story 16The Peterkins' Charades.
Story 17The Peterkins Are Obliged To Move.
Story 18The Peterkins Decide To Learn The Languages.
Story 19Modern Improvements At The Peterkins'.
Story 20Agamemnon's Career.
Story 21The Educational Breakfast.
Story 22The Peterkins At The Farm.

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Tonight, The Peterkin Papers can be the mission.

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

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