Letting Swift River Go

Jane Yolen
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Relates Sally Jane's experience of changing times in rural America, as she lives through the drowning of the Swift River towns in western Massachusetts to form the Quabbin Reservoir.
Genres: Picture BooksHistorical FictionChildrensFamilyGeographyHistoricalFictionPoetryRealistic FictionBiography Memoir
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