On Time
On Time by Oliver Optic is available here as the complete text, split into 645 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
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- Chapter I
- Chapter II A New Project
- Chapter III The Auction at Ruoara
- Chapter IV On Board the “Belle.”
- Chapter V In the Picnic Grove
- Chapter VI The Battle with Words
- Chapter VII The Battle with Blows
- Chapter VIII Waddie and I
- Chapter IX The Wreck of the “Highflyer.”
- Chapter X By the Great Horn Spoon!
- Chapter XI Waddie in a New Character
- Chapter XII A Steamboat Strike
- Chapter XIII Captain Wolf Penniman
- Chapter XIV In the Wheel-House
- Chapter XV The Horse-Shoe Channel
- Chapter XVI A Decided Victory
- Chapter XVII Tommy Toppleton Mounted
- Chapter XVIII Tommy Toppleton Threatens
- Chapter XIX The Two Majors
- Chapter XX The Major’s Next Move
- Chapter XXI Grace Toppleton Faints
- Chapter XXII Grace Toppleton’s Story
- Chapter XXIII Our Next Move
- Chapter XXIV Up the Lake
- Chapter XXV A Trick of the Enemy
- Chapter XXVI
- Chapter XXVII Major Toppleton’s Proposition
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