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The berry-picking man

by Jane Buchanan · 2003

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Nine-year-old Meggie resents spending time with a strange, smelly old man who calls her mother whenever he needs a ride, but when Christmas finds him in the hospital she knows what she must do.

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Audience
childrens
Length
short · 87 pages

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