Source text (please read only from this text!): https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/47471Pamela Heath, a pleasant 16-year-old girl living quietly at home with her parents and siblings, receives a peculiar invitation one day. An odd little old man delivers a letter from Emily Crabingway, her mother’s fourth cousin, who wants to know if Pamela will come and look after her house, Chequertrees, for 6 months while she is in Scotland on business. Three other girls will stay there with her. If they all comply with certain conditions (no visits to/from relatives; no letters, only one postcard a month; and stay out of the locked room on the first floor), they will each receive £50 at the end of their stay. Pamela decides to accept the invitation, and the rest of this delightful story is about her experiences at Chequertrees. (Summary by Winnifred Assmann)
Target completion date: 2024-06-30
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Genres for the project: Children's Fiction
Keywords that describe the book: Mystery, life lessons, class differences, female characters, teenage girls
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LibriVox recording settings: mono (1 channel), 44100 Hz sample rate, 128 kbps constant bit rate MP3. See the Tech Specs
Intro to recording:
Leave 0.5 to 1 second of silence at the beginning.
For the first section, say:
For the second and subsequent sections, use the shortened intro:"Chapter # of The Girls of Chequertrees. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit librivox.org." [Optional: "Read by your name."] "The Girls of Chequertrees, by Marion St. John Webb. Chapter Title."
End of recording:"Chapter # of The Girls of Chequertrees, by Marion St. John Webb. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain." "Chapter Title."
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If you are recording the final section of the book, add:"End of chapter #."
Leave 5 seconds of silence at the end."End of The Girls of Chequertrees, by Marion St. John Webb."
Filename: girlschequertrees_##_webb_128kb.mp3 where ## is the section number. (e.g. girlschequertrees_01_webb_128kb.mp3)
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