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Once on This Island

by Gloria Whelan

1995 · historical fiction · middle_grade

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Set in 1 place · 1 primary
Sense of Place
5/5
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Twelve-year-old Mary and her older brother and sister tend the family farm on Michigan's Mackinac Island while their father is away fighting the British in the War of 1812.

Set in

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    Mackinac Island · United States
    War of 1812 farm family
    ★ primary

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