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Jean lives in Coober Pedy, an underground mining town in the Australian Outback where her father mines for opals, but Jean yearns for a real home and an opportunity to go to a real school, and when she finds an opal in her house, she is able to afford to go to school at her grandparents' house in Adelaide.
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Jean, who lives underground in an Australian opal mining town, finds a precious stone large enough to allow her to move into a proper house with her grandparents.
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t be like to live in an underground house? Surrounded by the most beautiful gems in the world? Jean knows; she lives in Coober Pedy, an underground mining town in the Australian Outback, where her father mines for opals--gift stones. But as extraordinary as her life is, she yearns for what most children already have--a real home and the opportunity to go to a real school. So when Jean discovers a beautiful opal hidden in the wall of her aunt's underground house, everything changes. Her family helps Jean turn it into schoolbooks, clothes, and even a spare bed in her grandparents' home in Adelaide. In this modern-day fairy tale, Jean learns that sometimes wishes can come true, especially the more they mean to you.
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