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Mary is a young girl who is blinded but not completely. She is fed up of being wrapped in cotton wool by her grandmother. So Mary decides to go down to the sweetshop by herself for the first time but the trip is more eventful than she could ever have imagined and the shop is burgled whilst Mary is in there! How will she escape and get home safely?
First publish date: 2001
Genre: Children's Fiction/Children's Adventure
Authors: Jacqueline Wilson
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