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Bernard Brooks' Adventures

Bernard Brooks' Adventures by Horatio, Jr. Alger is available here as the complete text, split into 987 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

Horatio, Jr. Alger36 chapters

Bernard Brooks' Adventures: The Experience of a Plucky Boy by Horatio, Jr. Alger. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #45022.

36 chaptersComplete chronicle
Five linesIn each reading
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Academic course · 36 chapters

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Bernard Brooks' Adventures

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  1. Chapter I 23 readings five lines each Open chapter
  2. Chapter II Bernard’s Boldness 30 readings five lines each Open chapter
  3. Chapter III Brought to Bay 29 readings five lines each Open chapter
  4. Chapter IV 32 readings five lines each Open chapter
  5. Chapter V Mr. Penrose’s Secret 28 readings five lines each Open chapter
  6. Chapter VI Bernard’s Danger 33 readings five lines each Open chapter
  7. Chapter VII An Unexpected Champion 27 readings five lines each Open chapter
  8. Chapter VIII The Conspirators Are Foiled 25 readings five lines each Open chapter
  9. Chapter IX On the Hudson River Boat 27 readings five lines each Open chapter
  10. Chapter X 29 readings five lines each Open chapter
  11. Chapter XI Mr. Snowdon Loses His Pupil 28 readings five lines each Open chapter
  12. Chapter XII Bernard Meets a Friend of His Father 29 readings five lines each Open chapter
  13. Chapter XIII Professor Puffer 25 readings five lines each Open chapter
  14. Chapter XIV Some of the Passengers 33 readings five lines each Open chapter
  15. Chapter XV 24 readings five lines each Open chapter
  16. Chapter XVI A Scrap of Paper 26 readings five lines each Open chapter
  17. Chapter XVII Bernard’s Peril 28 readings five lines each Open chapter
  18. Chapter XVIII The Events of a Night 27 readings five lines each Open chapter
  19. Chapter XIX Professor Puffers Discomfiture 24 readings five lines each Open chapter
  20. Chapter XX A Lost Clue 33 readings five lines each Open chapter
  21. Chapter XXI A Day in London 32 readings five lines each Open chapter
  22. Chapter XXII Dick the Bootblack 32 readings five lines each Open chapter
  23. Chapter XXIII An Apartment at Morley’s Hotel 27 readings five lines each Open chapter
  24. Chapter XXIV Professor Puffer from His Own Point of View 31 readings five lines each Open chapter
  25. Chapter XXV Bernard’s Good Fortune 26 readings five lines each Open chapter
  26. Chapter XXVI Professor Puffer Once More 30 readings five lines each Open chapter
  27. Chapter XXVII A Citizen of Nebraska 24 readings five lines each Open chapter
  28. Chapter XXVIII Italy Seen Through American Spectacles 27 readings five lines each Open chapter
  29. Chapter XXIX Captured by Banditti 27 readings five lines each Open chapter
  30. Chapter XXX In a Trap 26 readings five lines each Open chapter
  31. Chapter XXXI Walter Cunningham’s Mission 31 readings five lines each Open chapter
  32. Chapter XXXII Suspense 22 readings five lines each Open chapter
  33. Chapter XXXIII Rescued 25 readings five lines each Open chapter
  34. Chapter XXXIV Nat Barclay’s Letter 11 readings five lines each Open chapter
  35. Chapter XXXV Professor Puffer’s Decline and Fall 11 readings five lines each Open chapter
  36. Chapter XXXVI Professor Puffer Becomes an Ally 31 readings five lines each Open chapter

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About 411 minutes of reading across 987 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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