The Motor Girls at Camp Surprise
The Motor Girls at Camp Surprise by Margaret Penrose is available here as the complete text, split into 834 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
The Motor Girls at Camp Surprise by Margaret Penrose. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #36426.
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- Chapter I
- Chapter II
- Chapter III Two Strange Men
- Chapter IV A Curious Story
- Chapter V
- Chapter VI Off to Camp
- Chapter VII Jack’s Bath
- Chapter VIII The Storm
- Chapter IX Tied Up
- Chapter X
- Chapter XI In Camp Surprise
- Chapter XII
- Chapter XIII That Noise
- Chapter XIV Was It Thunder?
- Chapter XV A Narrow Escape
- Chapter XVI Lost
- Chapter XVII Two Men
- Chapter XVIII Real Surprises
- Chapter XIX Where’s My Light?
- Chapter XX More Happenings
- Chapter XXI A Dancing Light
- Chapter XXII A Mountain Cave
- Chapter XXIII The Trembling Noise
- Chapter XXIV The Secret Passage
- Chapter XXV The Patched Tire
- Chapter XXVI The Dropped Bundle
- Chapter XXVII
- Chapter XXVIII Prisoners
- Chapter XXIX To the Rescue
- Chapter XXX All’s Well
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