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📘 Murphy's trail by Gary Paulsen

First publish date: 1996

Genre: Western Fiction/Western Adventure

Authors: Gary Paulsen

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Twelve‑year‑old Sarny endures a harsh life in slavery until a new fellow servant offers to teach her literacy, placing her in a perilous but hopeful path.

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During the war years, a six‑year‑old boy spends a summer with his grandmother in a border town. As women gather to aid a near‑laboring cousin, they create a quilt that weaves the family’s past and future stories together.

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A young Minnesota farm boy hears his Norwegian uncle’s legendary stories of a bygone era of logging and lumbering, capturing the rugged life of the northern frontier.

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