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Levin, Betty.

SHODDY COVE
New York : Greenwillow Books, 2003.
IL 5-8, RL 6.8
ISBN 0060522720
Clare's mother has a rather unusual job.  And Clare gets to help out in the summer.  Clare's mother is an interpreter at an historical village.  The interpreters dress in costume of the time period and tells visitors what life was like long ago.  Cossit Island Village is a living historical village that recreates life fron 1835.  Clare isn't as fond of the work as the rest of the family.  Things get a bit crazy when Clare meets Adam and his sister.  They have run away from home and are hiding out at the museum until their father sends for them.  Clare gets caught up in their plight and with a mystery that happened in Shoddy Cove in the year 1835.  Come along and visit the museum and find out what the long ago mystery is.
SUBJECTS:     Historical reenactments -- New England -- Fiction.
                        Runaways -- Fiction.
                        Brothers and sisters -- Fiction.
                        New England -- Fiction.

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