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PUBLISHER: Fidra Books Ltd
FORMAT: Paperback
ISBN: 9780955191008
RRP: £12.00
PAGES: 283
PUBLICATION DATE:
December 4, 2005
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The Far Island
M. Pardoe
Owing to the sudden death of their father, Jean and Dick Fraser are thrown unexpectedly upon the care of their very old great-grandmother. Unable to keep them in her tiny London house, the old lady sends them to a far northern island which she owns.
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