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Listening for Lions

Name: Listening for Lions
Author: Gloria Whelan

Gloria Whelan

Listening for Lions is a children's novel by Gloria Whelan, first published in 2005. Set in 1919, it concerns an orphaned girl who becomes involved in an inheritance swindle.

“They were all brilliant. They wrote books and painted pictures, and if they ever stopped talking, which I was sure they would never do, they planned to change the world.”

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