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Rubies from Burma
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November 1, 2018
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November 30, 2018
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Joanne
Mar 25, 2019 rated it liked it
This is a coming of age story, set in the final years of WWII, Mae Lee an eight year growing up in rural Georgia is the narrator.

Curious Mae Lee is constantly eaves dropping on the conversations of her older sister Ava, her father Chap and anyone who may have some secret to tell. "Maise Flynn, girl reporter would get no stories if she were not nosy, Nancy Drew would solve no mysterys."

As the story unfolds, and Mae Lee grows up we are taken through her life. Through the early death of parents,
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