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Jamela gets in trouble when she takes the expensive material intended for a new dress for Mama, parades it in the street, and allows it to become dirty and torn.
First publish date: June 1972
Subjects: Fiction, Clothing and dress, Pictorial works, Juvenile fiction, Children's fiction
Authors: Niki Daly
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