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The Golden Pasture

by Joyce Carol Thomas · 1986

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The exquisite horse twelve-year-old Carl Lee finds on his grandfather's farm one summer helps him to understand his difficult father better.

Themes
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Audience
childrens
Length
short · 136 pages

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