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Author: Patricia Beatty

📘 Eight Mules from Monterey by Patricia Beatty

During the summer of 1916 thirteen-year-old Fayette and her brother accompany their widowed mother on a mule trip into the California mountains, where she is to establish library outposts in isolated communities.

First publish date: 1982

Authors: Patricia Beatty

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