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Gracie: Home isn’t the only place she belongs …

By: Judi Curtin
Publisher: O'Brien Press Ltd
Published: September 2026
Pages: 304
Categories: Fiction, Children
Language: English
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ISBN-13: 9781788496353

From best-selling award-winner Judi Curtin It’s 1930. Twelve-year-old Gracie has always lived in a tiny cottage bursting with brothers and sisters, until she's sent to stay with her widowed Aunt Peg. Suddenly Gracie finds herself in a big, empty house feeling very alone. Enter the Travelling Players and their theatre. Liliana and her family are wild, funny and talented – and fill Gracie’s days with colour and excitement. Can she be happy here after all?

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