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Years of Grace

by Margaret Ayer Barnes

A young woman comes of age in the American Midwest at the turn of the 20th century.

Themes: Fiction · Drama

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Fourteen-year-old Jane, gulping down too-hot cocoa, is already plotting how to slip away from the girls who call for her—there's a boy waiting by the Water Works Tower. But her mother's sharp eyes have already settled on the wrong kind of friend.

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