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Many Reflections of Miss Jane Deming
by J. Anderson Coats
Ages: 9+
Published: 2017
Publisher: Atheneum BFYR/ Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 978-1-4814-6496-3
Keywords: Frontier Life
Promised a better life in the Washington Territory, a New England family boards a steamship that doesn't deliver that promise. Stepdaughter Jane perseveres despite obstacles.