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Reading on Verafy is free for every family — and always will be. Start reading great books today at no cost. When you're ready for more, $9.99 a month unlocks your whole family's tutor — math now, with science, history, language arts and more arriving this month. One price, every child — and no family ever left out.
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Chapter I. The River Bank
The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring-cleaning his little home.
First with brooms, then with dusters; then on ladders and steps and chairs, with a brush and a pail of whitewash; till he had dust in his throat and eyes, and an aching back and weary arms.
Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.
It was small wonder, then, that he suddenly flung down his brush on the floor, said "Bother!" and "O blow!" and also "Hang spring-cleaning!" and bolted out of the house without even waiting to put on his coat.
Something up above was calling him imperiously, and he made for the steep little tunnel which answered in his case to the gravelled carriage-drive owned by animals whose residences are nearer to the sun and air.
So he scraped and scratched and scrabbled and scrooged, and then he scrooged again and scrabbled and scratched and scraped.
Working busily with his little paws and muttering to himself, "Up we go! Up we go!" till at last, pop! his snout came out into the sunlight, and he found himself rolling in the warm grass of a great meadow.
A working slice of the real reader — press ▶. The book reads aloud while the gold zone stays put; your child scrolls to keep the narrated passage inside it (simulated here, or scroll it yourself). Points and the sync light stay hidden during reading and reveal only on pause — nothing on screen to game.
Verafy is built on a simple idea: the best way to learn is to read great books — and the hard, formative work of reading can't be handed to a machine without ceasing to be learning. So Verafy reads along with your child and checks that they truly understood, but it never summarizes, never answers, and never writes a word on their behalf. The reading and the thinking stay your child's. It does all of this knowing almost nothing about your child — no name, no face, no profile — and by using AI sparingly, which is what keeps it both honest and affordable: reading is always free for your whole family, and everything else is $9.99 a month.
No child should ever be priced out of learning to read well, so verified reading on Verafy is free for every family, forever. Reading is the foundation everything else is built on — and when your family is ready for more, $9.99 a month adds your whole household's tutor — math now, with science, history, language arts and more arriving this month. The door to reading never closes, and never costs a thing.
The books, the narration, the verification, the points, and the reading history all live and run on your family’s device. Your account holds a verified parent email, your ZIP code, and — with a parent’s consent — each reader’s first name and birth date, which child online-safety laws in many places require so we can apply the right age-appropriate protections. That information stays in your account, is never sold or shared, and never goes to any third party. Your weekly summary is built from a minimal stats digest — minutes, sessions, points, books — labeled by the reading animal each child picks. Verification photos and your child’s voice are captured on the device and stay there. No analytics, no tracking, nothing watching your child read.
Parent email · ZIP · consented name & birth date · never sharedWhen Verafy asks questions and grades answers, exactly two things are sent: the public-domain passage and your child’s typed answer. Never a name, a photo, a voice, a location — nothing that identifies your child, and nothing that’s used to train AI models.
Passage + answer · nothing elseYour child’s reading history belongs to your family, full stop. It stays in your hands — never sold, never mined, never shared. Verafy’s business is the subscription, not your child’s data.
Never sold · never mined · never sharedYour child picks from a curated library of classics. The book is read aloud at their pace — a patient narrator who never gets tired and never skips ahead — while your child follows on the page.
Real literature, full textsA gold reading zone sits still on the page. As the narration moves through the book, your child scrolls to keep the passage being read inside the zone. Doing that requires listening — it's effortless when you're following along and impossible when you're not. No camera-staring, no gimmicks: the act of following is the proof.
Patent-pending verificationAfter the passage, the tutor asks a few real questions — not multiple-choice trivia — and gives feedback on the answers. Each verified session is added to your child's reading history, and a summary lands with you.
Honest questions, honest feedbackNo licensed cartoon tie-ins, no leveled-reader filler. The starting shelf is drawn from the books families have trusted for a century — and it grows every month.
A sampling of the opening shelf. Full texts, beautifully set, read aloud by the voices on your device — with natural voices on Premium.
Every week you get a private summary of what your child read, what they understood, and proof they did the reading themselves — built from stats alone, never your child's name. It's the easiest way to know the learning is real. And soon, it's where your family's free local offers — pizza and prizes for finishing books — arrive, too.
"Eleanor tracked closely through both chapters and gave a thoughtful answer about why Mary hides the key. She rushed the last question — worth revisiting what the robin's behavior tells us. Suggested next: chapter 6 at the same pace."
You don't need anything fancy — we suggest an inexpensive Walmart ONN tablet, and it's plenty. Pin Verafy as the only app your child opens, and the tablet turns into a focused place to learn — no feeds, no store, no exits.
We don't sell a device — we just suggest one. Verafy works on any tablet.
🍕 Free Pizza & Prizes — real rewards for finishing books, coming soon to your area.
Free, forever — reading is never paywalled.
$9.99/mo — whole family, not per child. Or $99.99 a year.
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Trey & Ellice Tomeny
Trey and Ellice Tomeny are professional educators who live in Orem, Utah, with a combined nine children and seven grandchildren between them.
Trey was a founder of Legacy Christian Academy in Frisco, Texas, and of Coram Deo Academy in Flower Mound, Texas. He and his first wife homeschooled their two young boys until the day they started going to school with them — every day.
Ellice has been a public school art teacher since 2015, after her first husband passed.
Trey and Ellice share one of life’s heaviest burdens: each has buried a child. TJ, Trey’s oldest son, went to be with Jesus in 2005 at the age of 14. Joshua, Ellice’s middle son, entered eternity in 2016 at the age of 25, after a lifetime with spina bifida. Verafy Tutor is built in their memory — for every hour a parent gets to spend reading with a child.
Trey and Ellice were married in 2021, and Verafy Tutor is their first joint creation. Verafy herself — always openly an AI, never pretending otherwise — is their creation too, though around the Tomeny house she does get spoken of like family.
