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First published in the United States of America in 1991
by Walker Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, Inc.
E-book edition published in March 2013
All the characters portrayed in this story are fictitious.
Published simultaneously in Canada by Thomas Allen & Son Canada, Limited, Markham, Ontario.
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Arly / by Robert Newton Peck, p. cm.
Summary: Although Arly Poole seems bound to follow in his father's footsteps as a field worker in Jailtown, Florida, where his family lives in 1927 in the shadow of a cruel boss, his world suddenly seems larger when a schoolteacher comes to town.
[I.Florida—Fiction. 2. Teachers—Fiction.] I. Title. PZ7.P339Ar 1989
[Fic]—dc 19 88-24339 CIP AC