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Free as a bird

McMurchy-Barber, Gina. (Author).

Summary: "Ruby Jean Sharp comes from a time when being a developmentally disabled person could mean growing up behind locked doors and barred windows and being called names like 'retard' and 'moron.' Born with Down's syndrome, Ruby Jean is lovingly cared for by her grandmother. But after Grandma dies when Ruby is eight, her mother takes her to Woodlands School in New Westminster, British Columbia, and never comes back." -publisher.

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  • ISBN: 9781554884476 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 978155484476
  • ISBN: 9781554884476 (sc.)
  • ISBN: 1554884470
  • Physical Description: print
    168 p. : ill ; 19 cm.
  • Publisher: Toronto, Ont. : Dundurn ; Lancaster : Gazelle [distributor], 2010.

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Novel.

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Subject: Woodlands School (New Westminster, B.C.) -- Fiction
Abandoned children -- Fiction
Abandoned children -- Juvenile fiction
Psychiatric hospital care -- Fiction
Down syndrome -- Patients -- Care -- Fiction
Down syndrome -- Patients -- Care -- Juvenile fiction
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Genre: Canadian fiction.

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  • 4 of 5 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Fort Nelson Public Library.

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