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A candle in the mist : a story for girls / by Florence Crannell Means ; with illustrations by Marguerite De Angeli.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel Fiction 3199
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Means, Florence Crannell, 1891-1980.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Faith--Juvenile fiction.
- Faith.
- Frontier and pioneer life--Juvenile fiction.
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Watson, Valerie Jean (inscription) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Means, Florence Crannell, 1891-1980 (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Funk, Ora G. (inscription) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 252 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1931.
- Summary:
- A mystery causes Janey and her family to move to Minnesota in 1871, where they endure the hardships of pioneer life. Grades 6-8.
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- Schimmel Collection copy inscribed by the author to Valerie Jean Watson in blue ink on front free endpaper; inscribed by Ora G. Funk to Valerie Jean Watson on 25 February 1953 in blue ink on half-title leaf.
- Schimmel Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- OCLC:
- 4802758
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