The Rover Boys Down East
The Rover Boys Down East by Edward Stratemeyer is available here as the complete text, split into 931 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
The Rover Boys Down East by Edward Stratemeyer. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #40303.
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The Rover Boys Down East
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- Chapter I
- Chapter II
- Chapter III College Boys to the Rescue
- Chapter IV What Flockley Had to Tell
- Chapter V
- Chapter VI
- Chapter VII
- Chapter VIII
- Chapter IX
- Chapter X When the Cannon Went Off
- Chapter XI A Day to Remember
- Chapter XII Off for Camp
- Chapter XIII Hans Mueller’s Queer Catch
- Chapter XIV
- Chapter XV Strange News
- Chapter XVI
- Chapter XVII Dan Baxter’s Revelation
- Chapter XVIII
- Chapter XIX On the Way to Boston
- Chapter XX An Adventure in Boston
- Chapter XXI From One Clue to Another
- Chapter XXII A Chase Up the Coast
- Chapter XXIII Aboard the Mary Delaway
- Chapter XXIV Out on Casco Bay
- Chapter XXV
- Chapter XXVI
- Chapter XXVII What Happened in the Cave
- Chapter XXVIII At the Bottom of the Pool
- Chapter XXIX A Minute Too Late
- Chapter XXX
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- Author
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- Rover
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- School
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- Ocean
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