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Strange School, Secret Wish

By Zena Faith Levine

A review of Strange School, Secret Wish by Bernice Gold

Published on April 1, 2002

Strange School, Secret Wish
Bernice Gold

Beach Holme Publishing
$9.95
paper

In Bernice Gold’s Strange School, Secret Wish, preteens can follow Jenny Merrill’s passionate search for the perfect violin as she travels with her family through 1920s Northern Ontario in a railway car that serves as both the communities’ school and her home. mRb

Zena Faith Levine is a Montreal freelance writer and editor.

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