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The day the animals came

by Frances Ward Weller · 2003

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A young girl who misses her former home and her animal friends left behind in the West Indies makes new friends at the blessing of the animals at a cathedral in New York City on the Feast of St. Francis.

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animalsanimalsMore like thisLess of thisneighborsneighborsMore like thisLess of this
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New YorkNew YorkMore like thisLess of this
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childrens

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