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Wish You Were Here

by Hilma Wolitzer · 1984

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When his widowed mother meets a man she wants to marry, thirteen-year-old Bernie decides he will go to live with his grandfather in Florida rather than live in the house with his new stepfather.

Audience
childrens
Length
short · 179 pages

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