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Mackall, Dandi Daley
SILENT DREAMS
Grand Rapids, Mich. : Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, 2003.
IL K-3, RL 4.5
ISBN 0802852009
Camilla has no parents and lives with her aunt.  They are homeless and her aunt barely notices the world going by.  It's the early 1900s and silent movies are becoming very popular.  Each week, Camilla and her aunt search for pennies and hope to have enough to afford the Saturday matinee.  It is the only time Camilla's aunt comes out of her sorrow.
SUBJECTS:     Homeless persons -- Fiction.
                        Motion pictures -- Fiction.
                        Orphans -- Fiction.
                        Aunts -- Fiction.
                        Stories in rhyme.

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