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Sophie's Tom

by Dick King-Smith · 1991

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Sophie is a small, determined girl who is going to be a farmer when she grows up. So she's delighted when, on her fifth birthday (which also happens to be Christmas Day), she gets a model farm and lots of toy animals. What she wants most of all, though, is a real animal - like Tom, for example.

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The problem is - how to win over her anti-cat dad!

Themes
childhood
Setting
1990sEngland
Audience
childrensmiddle grade
Length
short · 112 pages

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