The Corner House Girls
The Corner House Girls by Grace Brooks Hill is available here as the complete text, split into 826 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
The Corner House Girls How they moved to Milton, what they found, and what they did by Grace Brooks Hill. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #38743.
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The Corner House Girls
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This edition of The Corner House Girls by Grace Brooks Hill carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #38743, divided into 25 chapters and 826 reading sections of 5 sentences each. Every sentence of the source is kept, and each chapter records which sentences cover which part of the story. Any word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.
Where can I read The Corner House Girls in full?
The complete text of The Corner House Girls is here, taken from Project Gutenberg eBook #38743 and divided into 826 sections.
This page carries the whole of The Corner House Girls by Grace Brooks Hill, not an abridgement or a summary. The text comes from Project Gutenberg eBook #38743, with the Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence removed so that only the work itself remains. It runs to 4128 sentences across 25 chapters. Each chapter stores a record of which sentences cover which part of the work, so nothing is quietly dropped between the source edition and the page you read.
How is The Corner House Girls divided for reading?
The Corner House Girls is presented in 25 chapters, each split into sections of 5 sentences for steady reading.
Rather than presenting The Corner House Girls as unbroken pages, the text is grouped into 826 sections of 5 sentences each. A section is short enough to hold in mind at once, which suits a reader working in a second language or returning to a long work in short sittings. The sections are gathered into 25 chapters.
Can I hear The Corner House Girls read aloud?
Yes. Every sentence and every individual word of The Corner House Girls can be played aloud, and each word shows its dictionary entry.
Every sentence of The Corner House Girls can be played aloud, and so can any single word within it. Tapping a word plays it on its own and opens its dictionary entry, with the pronunciation shown in IPA alongside the part of speech and meaning. The reading voice uses United States English. This matters most for a work of this period, where a reader meets vocabulary and turns of phrase that are no longer in daily use and cannot be guessed reliably from spelling alone.
Questions about reading The Corner House Girls
Common questions about reading The Corner House Girls by Grace Brooks Hill on this page, its source edition and its audio.
Is this the complete text of The Corner House Girls?
Yes. All 4128 sentences of Project Gutenberg eBook #38743 are kept, with a record of which sentences cover which part.
Which edition of The Corner House Girls is used?
Project Gutenberg eBook #38743, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.
How long does The Corner House Girls take to read?
About 344 minutes of reading across 826 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
How to read The Corner House Girls section by section
How to work through The Corner House Girls section by section, using the audio and the tap-to-define vocabulary.
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Open a chapter
Choose one of the 25 chapters of The Corner House Girls to begin.
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Read one section
Each section holds 5 sentences; read it once through.
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Listen and tap
Play the section aloud, then tap any unfamiliar word for its entry.
Vocabulary met early in The Corner House Girls
Words and structures a reader meets early in The Corner House Girls, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
- Chair
- A word that appears in the opening chapter of The Corner House Girls; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
- Child
- A word that appears in the opening chapter of The Corner House Girls; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
- Bustling
- A word that appears in the opening chapter of The Corner House Girls; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
- Important
- A word that appears in the opening chapter of The Corner House Girls; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.