Isabel Marvin
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Books by Isabel Marvin
Young Readers
A Story of Finnish Immigrants
By
Isabel Marvin
Thirteen-year-old Anna Kallio often thinks about the way life was before her mother died. When Anna and her brother realize how lonely their father is, they plot to find him a new wife, even trying to arrange a match with one of the “mail order” brides arriving from Finland. But the results are different from anything that Anna expected.
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