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The Prisoner of Zenda

by Anthony Hope

An English traveler who looks exactly like a kidnapped king must impersonate him to save a throne.

📖 22 chapters, complete ⏱ about 15 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 Prisoner of Zenda 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, 22 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 22 chapters the app serves one at a time.

See all 22 chapters
Chapter 1The Rassendylls--With a Word on the Elphbergs
Chapter 2Concerning the Colour of Men’s Hair
Chapter 3A Merry Evening with a Distant Relative
Chapter 4The King Keeps His Appointment
Chapter 5The Adventures of an Understudy
Chapter 6The Secret of a Cellar
Chapter 7His Majesty Sleeps in Strelsau
Chapter 8A Fair Cousin and a Dark Brother
Chapter 9A New Use for a Tea-table
Chapter 10A Great Chance for a Villain
Chapter 11Hunting a Very Big Boar
Chapter 12I Receive a Visitor and Bait a Hook
Chapter 13An Improvement on Jacob’s Ladder
Chapter 14A Night Outside the Castle
Chapter 15I Talk with a Tempter
Chapter 16A Desperate Plan
Chapter 17Young Rupert’s Midnight Diversions
Chapter 18The Forcing of the Trap
Chapter 19Face to Face in the Forest
Chapter 20The Prisoner and the King
Chapter 21If love were all!
Chapter 22Present, Past--and Future?

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Tonight, The Prisoner of Zenda can be the mission.

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

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