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Don Gordon's Shooting-Box

by Harry Castlemon

Level B2 · Upper-intermediateAdventureChildren's17 chapters
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CEFR level
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Length
17 chapters
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About this book

At Bridgeport Military Academy, a strict and proud institution, a group of cadets wrestles with discipline, rivalry, and rebellion, especially as tensions rise around a favored street-smart newcomer threatening the school's rigid hierarchy. Adventure and conflict ignite within these young soldiers.

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Contents

17 chapters in all. The first chapter is free to read with no account.

02CHAPTER II. DON AND BERT AT SCHOOL.
03CHAPTER III. HAZING A “PLEBE.”
04CHAPTER IV. THE NEW YORK BOOT-BLACK.
05CHAPTER V. DON AND BERT HAVE VISITORS.
06CHAPTER VI. CONY RYAN’S PANCAKES.
07CHAPTER VII. RUNNING THE GUARD.
08CHAPTER VIII. HOW DON GOT IN.
09CHAPTER IX. DON’S YANKEE INVENTION.
10CHAPTER X. BREAKING UP THE “SET.”
11CHAPTER XI. THE STUDENTS IN CAMP.
12CHAPTER XII. THE DESERTERS AT THE SHOW.

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