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Opal : The Journal of an Understanding Heart
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Opal : The Journal of an Understanding Heart Paperback - 1995 - 1st Edition

by Whiteley, Opal

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Like Watership Down and The Education of Little Tree, this lyrical, lovely, and deeply touching journal kept by a six-year-old girl living in an Oregon lumber camp at the turn of the century is a book that will appeal to all ages. "Enchanting . . . Opal transforms bleak and loveless circumstances into a life-affirming fable".--San Francisco Chronicle.

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Crown Publishing Group, The. Used - Very Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.
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  • Title Opal : The Journal of an Understanding Heart
  • Author Whiteley, Opal
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 192
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Crown Publishing Group, The, NY
  • Date October 3, 1995
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 13768870-6
  • ISBN 9780517885161 / 0517885166
  • Weight 0.58 lbs (0.26 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.54 x 5.54 x 0.49 in (21.69 x 14.07 x 1.24 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Pacific Northwest
  • Library of Congress subjects Nature - Poetry, Whiteley, Opal Stanley - Poetry
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 95030753
  • Dewey Decimal Code 811.54

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My mother and father are gone.

From the jacket flap

A lyrical, lovely, and deeply touching adaptation of an authentic journal kept by an orphaned six-year-old girl--later believed to be a French princess--living in an Oregon lumber camp at the turn of the century. 24 black-and-white photographs.

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About the author

Opal Whiteley grew up in logging settlements near the town of Cottage Grove, at the southern end of Oregon's Willamette Valley. A child literary prodigy and acclaimed nature teacher, she is the author of The Fairyland Around Us, a self-published nature book for children (1918), and her bestselling childhood diary, The Story of Opal (1920).