Dave Porter's Great Search
Dave Porter's Great Search by Edward Stratemeyer is available here as the complete text, split into 851 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
Dave Porter's Great Search by Edward Stratemeyer. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #55764.
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- Chapter I
- Chapter II Something About the Past
- Chapter III A Surprise of the Road
- Chapter IV What Phil’s Letter Told
- Chapter V Nick Jasniff’s Visit
- Chapter VI News from Home
- Chapter VII The Fight on the Trail
- Chapter VIII
- Chapter IX Dave at Orella
- Chapter X What the Girls Had to Tell
- Chapter XI
- Chapter XII On the Mountain Top
- Chapter XIII
- Chapter XIV Something About Bears
- Chapter XV
- Chapter XVI Waiting for Letters
- Chapter XVII Bad News
- Chapter XVIII On the Way East
- Chapter XIX The Demand for Money
- Chapter XX Beginning the Great Search
- Chapter XXI Stuck on the Road
- Chapter XXII
- Chapter XXIII What the Little Girls Knew
- Chapter XXIV Another Clue
- Chapter XXV What Horsehair Had to Tell
- Chapter XXVI The Mountain Road
- Chapter XXVII To the Rescue
- Chapter XXVIII Prisoners
- Chapter XXIX Trying to Escape
- Chapter XXX The Round-Up—conclusion
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