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A Christmas promise : a novel /

Three days before Christmas, in the freezing slums of London's East End, thirteen-year-old Gracie Phipps and eight-year-old Minnie Maude Mudway join together in a search for Charlie, the donkey who belonged to Minnie Maude's Uncle Alf. Gracie is shocked to learn that only the day before, s...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Perry, Anne
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Ballantine Books, [2009]
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Perry, Anne. Christmas novels.
Subjects:
Poor children > England > London > Fiction.
City and town life > England > London > Fiction.
East End (London, England) > Fiction.
Christmas stories.
Mystery fiction.
Historical fiction.
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Summary:Three days before Christmas, in the freezing slums of London's East End, thirteen-year-old Gracie Phipps and eight-year-old Minnie Maude Mudway join together in a search for Charlie, the donkey who belonged to Minnie Maude's Uncle Alf. Gracie is shocked to learn that only the day before, someone brutally murdered Uncle Alf and made off with his rag-and-bones cart and the beloved beast who pulled it.
Physical Description:193 pages ; 20 cm.
ISBN:0345510666 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780345510662 (hardcover : alk. paper)