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Name: Janie in old California
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Author: Henry Timin

📘 Janie in old California by Henry Timin

Janie finds a journal in her grandmother's trunk, written several generations prior by a little girl, about her life in what eventually became the state of California.

First publish date: 2002

Authors: Henry Timin

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