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Name: Playing Beatie Bow

Author: Ruth Park
Year: 1980
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Genres/categories: Award winners, Young adult, Time travel, Classic, Historical fiction, Fantasy, Fiction, Children

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Winner of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction in 1982.

Distraught over her parents' separation, Abigail follows a strange child called Beatie Bow and time slips back a hundred years where she becomes involved with an Australian shopkeeper's family.
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