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The Specter

The Specter

by Joan Lowery Nixon

1982FictionOrphansHodgkin's diseaseCancerEmotional problems
3.0
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A seventeen-year-old orphan with Hodgkin's disease becomes very involved with her new hospital roommate, a nine-year-old girl who insists that the man who killed her father is trying to kill her.

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FictionOrphansHodgkin's diseaseCancerEmotional problemsNew York Times reviewed
First published 1982

Author

Joan Lowery Nixon

First published

1982

Pages

184

Read time

≈ 5h

Editions

5

Language

English

Publisher

Granada

ISBN

9780440977407

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