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In 1939 young Waverley Scott arrives on remote Isadora Island in the Puget Sound. She is to be a student at Temple School -- banished because her features too closely resemble those of her mother's married employer. The headmistress of this all-girl school, Sophia Westervelt, has a... read more

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Sputtering, distant and rhythmic, broke the afternoon quiet, and Nona York, trowel in hand, stopped weeding amongst the onions and paused attentively.

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  1. Laura Kalpakian (Author)
 

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