Before the Lark (1982)

by Irene Bennett Brown

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In 1888, hard-working twelve-year-old Jocey Royal, tormented because of a disfiguring harelip, takes her invalid grandmother to live on the Kansas farm that her drifter father has abandoned.

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1982

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Like a tired beetle the two-wheeled laundry cart pulled by the bony horse crawled throughthe mud of the Kansas City, Missouri, street.

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In 1888, hard-working twelve-year-old Jocey Royal, tormented because of a disfiguring harelip, takes her invalid grandmother to live on the Kansas farm that her drifter father has abandoned.

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