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The Railway Children

by E. Nesbit

Three kids move to a cottage by the railway and wave to the train that might bring their father home.

📖 14 chapters, complete ⏱ about 30 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 The Railway Children 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, 14 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 14 chapters the app serves one at a time.

See all 14 chapters
Chapter 1The beginning of things.
Chapter 2Peter's coal-mine.
Chapter 3The old gentleman.
Chapter 4The engine-burglar.
Chapter 5Prisoners and captives.
Chapter 6Saviours of the train.
Chapter 7For valour.
Chapter 8The amateur firemen.
Chapter 9The pride of Perks.
Chapter 10The terrible secret.
Chapter 11The hound in the red jersey.
Chapter 12What Bobbie brought home.
Chapter 13The hound's grandfather.
Chapter 14The End.

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Tonight, The Railway Children can be the mission.

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

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