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Format: Paperback
Publisher: St Martins Pr
Published: Oct 2004
Genre: Fiction - Historical - General
Retail Price: $19.00
Pages: 389
Dreaming of far-off lands away from her loving 1890s Honolulu home, seven-year-old Rachel is forcibly removed from her family when she contracts leprosy and is placed in a settlement, where she loses a series of new friends before new medical discoveries enable her reentry into the world. Reader's Guide included. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.
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