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The Secret Garden

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Sour, lonely Mary finds a locked garden and brings it back to life, along with two unhappy children.

📖 27 chapters, complete ⏱ about 20 minutes a night 📅 a chapter a night finishes it in about 4 weeks
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This book can earn their screen time.

Assign The Secret Garden 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, 27 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 27 chapters the app serves one at a time.

See all 27 chapters
Chapter 1THERE IS NO ONE LEFT
Chapter 2MISTRESS MARY QUITE CONTRARY
Chapter 3ACROSS THE MOOR
Chapter 4MARTHA
Chapter 5THE CRY IN THE CORRIDOR
Chapter 6“THERE WAS SOMEONE CRYING—THERE WAS!”
Chapter 7THE KEY TO THE GARDEN
Chapter 8THE ROBIN WHO SHOWED THE WAY
Chapter 9THE STRANGEST HOUSE ANYONE EVER LIVED IN
Chapter 10DICKON
Chapter 11THE NEST OF THE MISSEL THRUSH
Chapter 12“MIGHT I HAVE A BIT OF EARTH?”
Chapter 13“I AM COLIN”
Chapter 14A YOUNG RAJAH
Chapter 15NEST BUILDING
Chapter 16“I WON’T!” SAID MARY
Chapter 17A TANTRUM
Chapter 18“THA’ MUNNOT WASTE NO TIME”
Chapter 19“IT HAS COME!”
Chapter 20“I SHALL LIVE FOREVER—AND EVER—AND EVER!”
Chapter 21BEN WEATHERSTAFF
Chapter 22WHEN THE SUN WENT DOWN
Chapter 23MAGIC
Chapter 24“LET THEM LAUGH”
Chapter 25THE CURTAIN
Chapter 26“IT’S MOTHER!”
Chapter 27IN THE GARDEN

Nearby on the shelf

A Little Princess
ages 10–13
Treasure Island
ages 11–14
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
ages 11–14
The Prince and the Pauper
ages 11–14

Tonight, The Secret Garden can be the mission.

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

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