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Minnow on the Say

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English
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Buried Treasure
Friendship
Canoes And Canoeing
Treasure-trove
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Published 1955 Oxford University Press 5 views
ISBN
0192716158
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Philippa Pearce

Ann Philippa Pearce OBE FRSL (22 January 1920 – 21 December 2006) was an English author of children's books. Best known of those books is the time-slip novel Tom's Midnight Garden, which won the 1958 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, as the year's outstanding children's book by a British subject. Pearce was a commended runner-up for the Medal a further four times.

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DAVID MOSS lived with his family in the last house in Jubilee Row...

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Two English boys, David and Adam, spend the summer canoeing on the River Say and, with just an old riddle for a clue, try to find a treasure hidden along its banks by one of Adam's ancestors.

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