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    In This Wood: a novel
    In This Wood: a novel
    In This Wood: a novel
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    In This Wood: a novel

    By Megan Payne

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    Anna Elizabeth Hatcher is eleven years old and stuck with an accent that earns her peers' ridicule and none of her family's well-known talents to make up for it. One too many barbs from the class bully sends her into a classroom fight, her father's workshop, and the beginning of her journey to find herself. A novel

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSunlight Books
    Release dateJun 6, 2012
    ISBN9781476255958
    In This Wood: a novel
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    Megan Payne

    Megan Payne writes Christian fiction and nonfiction for families and youth. She has written for The Searcher, Faithwriters Magazine, and Skipping Stones, among other publications.

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