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Just graduated from high school and in the midst of deciding her future, eighteen-year-old Miranda joins her older brother in Virginia, where he is doing volunteer work building houses for the disadvantaged. They are trying to make a difference in the world.
First publish date: 1999
Genre: Children's Fiction/Children's Adventure
Authors: Stephanie Doyon
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