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I, Coriander by Sally Gardner

I, Coriander

by Sally Gardner
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  • Aug 1, 2005, 288 pages
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  • Mar 2007, 288 pages
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Even then, these two miniatures looked to me strangely out of time, as if they had been painted long, long ago in another world entirely. I know now what they mean. I know why my mother kept silent and why, at my darkest moment, her past claimed me, leading me back to something that could no longer be denied.

From I, Coriander by Sally Gardner. All rights reserved. Copyright Sally Gardner 2005. No part of this book maybe reproduced without written permission from the publisher, Dial Books for Young Children.

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