E-audiobook
The secret orphan / Glynis Peters.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780008355593
- ISBN: 0008355592
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 sound file (10 hr., 38 min., 45 sec.)) : digital
- Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: [Glasgow, Scotland] : HarperImpulse, 2019.
Content descriptions
| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Anna Cordell. |
| Source of Description Note: | Online resource; title from title details screen (OverDrive, viewed June 18, 2019). |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | World War, 1939-1945 > Fiction. Orphans > Fiction. World War (1939-1945) Orphans. |
| Genre: | Downloadable audio books. Audiobooks. Fiction. Audiobooks. |
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