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Just David

Just David by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter is available here as the complete public-domain text, split into 939 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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Just David by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter. Complete public-domain text from Project Gutenberg eBook #440.

25 chaptersComplete chronicle

Five linesIn each reading

US EnglishNarration and vocabulary

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Mountain: A word that appears in the opening chapter of Just David; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
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Academic course · 25 chapters

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