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Author: Susan Terris

📘 Tucker and the horse thief by Susan Terris

A 12-year-old girl, posing as a boy and abused and neglected by a father who has brought her to California to help him get rich in the aftermath of the gold rush, finds both warmth and uneasiness in a friendship with a Jewish boy who does not suspect she is a girl.

First publish date: 1979

Authors: Susan Terris

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