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Understood Betsy

by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

A timid city girl is sent to cousins on a farm and discovers she can do far more than she thought.

📖 11 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 Understood Betsy 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, 11 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 11 chapters the app serves one at a time.

See all 11 chapters
Chapter 1AUNT HARRIET HAS A COUGH
Chapter 2BETSY HOLDS THE REINS
Chapter 3A SHORT MORNING
Chapter 4BETSY GOES TO SCHOOL
Chapter 5WHAT GRADE IS BETSY?
Chapter 6IF YOU DON’T LIKE CONVERSATION IN A BOOK SKIP THIS CHAPTER!
Chapter 7ELIZABETH ANN FAILS IN AN EXAMINATION
Chapter 8BETSY STARTS A SEWING SOCIETY
Chapter 9THE NEW CLOTHES FAIL
Chapter 10BETSY HAS A BIRTHDAY
Chapter 11“UNDERSTOOD AUNT FRANCES”

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Tonight, Understood Betsy can be the mission.

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

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