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Author Hammer, Loretta Johnson.

Title The tree that owns itself and other adventure tales from out of the past / Loretta Johnson Hammer and Gail Langer Karwoski ; illustrated by James Watling.

Publication Info. Atlanta : Peachtree, [1996]
©1996

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Location Call No. Status
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Children's Department  SHORT STORIES J-PB KARWOSKI    Check Shelf
Description 149 pages : illustrations map ; 23 cm
Summary Twelve fictional stories from different periods of Georgia history relate the adventures of gypsies, swampers, Cherokees, an Olympic weight lifter, and a parachuting dog.
Contents Introduction -- Tree that owns itself -- Georgia's strong man -- Max, the paratrooping dog -- Gone but not forgotten -- King of the swamp -- Georgia's ghost town -- Secret school -- Auraria's nugget -- Cherokee tears -- Mammy Kate uses her head -- War woman! -- Escape from Blackbeard Island -- Author biographies.
Study Program Accelerated Reader AR MG 5.1 6.0 54856.
Subject Georgia -- History -- Juvenile fiction.
Children's stories, American.
Georgia -- History -- Fiction.
Short stories.
Added Author Karwoski, Gail, 1949-
Watling, James, illustrator.
ISBN 1561451207
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