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The Herring Girls

(1994)
(The second book in the Against the Tide series)
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The herring girls sort and pack the catch of fish every day at Whitby and thirteen-year-old Dora has always held a romantic notion of joining them. Then a family tragedy forces Dora into the job she's secretly dreamed about and the brutal reality of being a herring girl strikes. It's a tough life but Dora is detemined to be successful.


Genre: Children's Fiction

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