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    Emerald Rising: Birch Clump Village Reader, 1
    Emerald Rising: Birch Clump Village Reader, 1
    Emerald Rising: Birch Clump Village Reader, 1
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    Emerald Rising: Birch Clump Village Reader, 1

    By Joshua Seidl, SSP

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    Short stories, fictional, folk telling style. This is the first in a series of the "Birch Clump Village Readers." Emerald Rising, the lead story, is about Native American students escape from an Indian Boarding School in the 1880s. The Grocer is a Great Depression era story with a humerous twist and moral lesson. Fishing Hole begins as a boy meet girl story and dangles as a dramatic cliff hanger, 1969. Other stories are whisical teenage Baby Boomer events in the northern Great Lakes Region. Stillness is a tough and tender father and son exchange from about 1968 to a bit past the First Gulf War.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLulu.com
    Release dateApr 27, 2012
    ISBN9781105688089
    Emerald Rising: Birch Clump Village Reader, 1

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