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BlueIris

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15. January 1905, by Katharine Boling.

Reply to grasswire (Reply #9)

Tue May 22, 2012, 11:13 PM

May 2012

Evidently, the author passed away in 2002, but she wrote a good book about this topic before she died. It's a YA thing, though, don't know if you'll be into that.

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