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Award winning novelist maile meloy, in her first novel for young readers 10 and up, has written something amazing. The conflict over the islands of quemoy and matsu is important to the story. Book one of the the apothecary trilogy maile meloy. But its hard to keep these characters down, and their ingenuity and determination bring them out of the pages and make them real for the reader. The apothecary is the story of fourteenyearold janie scott who has. Stories 2002 liars and saints 2003 a family daughter 2006 both ways is the only way i want it.
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