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The Tracy diamonds

The Tracy diamonds by Mary Jane Holmes is available here as the complete text, split into 0 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

The Tracy diamonds by Mary Jane Holmes. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #70966.

40 chaptersComplete chronicle
Five linesIn each reading
US EnglishNarration and vocabulary

Academic course · 40 chapters

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  1. Chapter I 16 readings five lines each Open chapter
  2. Chapter II The Cause of the Battle 22 readings five lines each Open chapter
  3. Chapter III Uncle Zach and Craig Mason 24 readings five lines each Open chapter
  4. Chapter IV 13 readings five lines each Open chapter
  5. Chapter V The Tragedy 65 readings five lines each Open chapter
  6. Chapter VI The Tracys 33 readings five lines each Open chapter
  7. Chapter VII Alice 30 readings five lines each Open chapter
  8. Chapter VIII Waiting for T’other One 12 readings five lines each Open chapter
  9. Chapter IX Alice and Jeff 28 readings five lines each Open chapter
  10. Chapter X Alice and Craig 22 readings five lines each Open chapter
  11. Chapter XI A Coquette 35 readings five lines each Open chapter
  12. Chapter XII On the North Piazza 50 readings five lines each Open chapter
  13. Chapter XIII The Drive 34 readings five lines each Open chapter
  14. Chapter XIV The Return Home 20 readings five lines each Open chapter
  15. Chapter XV Progress 12 readings five lines each Open chapter
  16. Chapter XVI Browning 39 readings five lines each Open chapter
  17. Chapter XVII What Time Told 32 readings five lines each Open chapter
  18. Chapter XVIII In the Haunted House 41 readings five lines each Open chapter
  19. Chapter XIX The Denouement 31 readings five lines each Open chapter
  20. Chapter XX What Followed 54 readings five lines each Open chapter
  21. Chapter XXI The Close of the Season 47 readings five lines each Open chapter
  22. Chapter XXII In the Red School House 18 readings five lines each Open chapter
  23. Chapter XXIII The Last Act of Part One 14 readings five lines each Open chapter
  24. Chapter XXIV Fanny and Roy 41 readings five lines each Open chapter
  25. Chapter XXV 20 readings five lines each Open chapter
  26. Chapter XXVI Ancestry 34 readings five lines each Open chapter
  27. Chapter XXVII Inez 44 readings five lines each Open chapter
  28. Chapter XXVIII In the Yosemite 78 readings five lines each Open chapter
  29. Chapter XXIX On the Road to Clark’s 30 readings five lines each Open chapter
  30. Chapter XXX Mark Hilton 22 readings five lines each Open chapter
  31. Chapter XXXI Mark and Tom 19 readings five lines each Open chapter
  32. Chapter XXXII Inez and Her Father 20 readings five lines each Open chapter
  33. Chapter XXXIII Mark and Helen 37 readings five lines each Open chapter
  34. Chapter XXXIV Fanny and Inez 24 readings five lines each Open chapter
  35. Chapter XXXV The Sisters 21 readings five lines each Open chapter
  36. Chapter XXXVI Roy 44 readings five lines each Open chapter
  37. Chapter XXXVII At the Last 47 readings five lines each Open chapter
  38. Chapter XXXVIII In Ridgefield 22 readings five lines each Open chapter
  39. Chapter XXXIX Dotty’s Funeral 21 readings five lines each Open chapter
  40. Chapter XL Odds and Ends 31 readings five lines each Open chapter

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