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Name: Buba Leah and her paper children
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Author: Lillian Hammer Ross

📘 Buba Leah and her paper children by Lillian Hammer Ross

Buba Leah's fervent wish to see her children in faraway America is fulfilled when she receives a special letter in the mail.

First publish date: 1991

Subjects: Fiction, Emigration and immigration, Jews, Juvenile fiction, Letters

Authors: Lillian Hammer Ross

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