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Name: The everlasting hills
Rating: 1 (1 reviews)
Author: Irene Hunt

When a bitter mountain man cannot accept his twelve-year-old son's mental retardation, the boy wanders into the wilderness and finds in a stranger the father he has never had.

First publish date: 1985

Authors: Irene Hunt

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