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Ruby Sawyer adores her lumberjack father but when he dies, she is forced to leave the school she enjoys to help care for her ten siblings. Her mother takes a job cooking for the lumber camp. However, when Ruby befriends an elderly woman who is affluent but blind, she is rewarded by receiving some children's books that transport her to another world. Eventually, the kindly Mrs. Graham invites the Sawyer family to share her large home. Mrs. Sawyer remarries one of her husband's cohorts, and Ruby v
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Oct 24, 2007
Krista the Krazy Kataloguer
rated it
really liked it
Shelves:
read-childrens-books,
read-historical-fiction
I empathized with this poor girl who just wanted a library and an education!
Dec 13, 2016
Lisa
marked it as to-read
