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Catch the Sea

by Mary Haynes · 1989

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While her artist father is away trying to arrange a much-needed exhibition, thirteen-year-old Lily stays alone at the beach cottage in which they've spent the summer and discovers her own inner strengths and resources and some evidence of an artistic talent that she's always been afraid to test.

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