Opal: The Journal of an Understanding Heart - Hardcover
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The diary of a six-year-old orphan girl from turn-of-the-century Oregon uses poetry to document her loneliness and love of nature
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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).
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ovely, 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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- PublisherCrown Pub
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0517702614
- ISBN 13 9780517702611
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages186
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