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Aunt Jane's Nieces

Aunt Jane's Nieces by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum is available here as the complete text, split into 723 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum29 chapters

Aunt Jane's Nieces by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #10123.

29 chaptersComplete chronicle

Five linesIn each reading

US EnglishNarration and vocabulary

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