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Bilgewater

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4.1 out of 5
Based on 112 Ratings and 31 Reviews

Book Description
Marigold Green calls herself 'hideous, quaint and barmy'. Other people calle her Bilgewater, a corruption of Bill's daughter. Growing up in a boys' school where her father is housemaster, she is convinced of her own plainness and peculiarity. Groomed by the wise and loving Paula, upstaged by bad, beautiful Grace and ripe for seduction by entirely the wrong sort of boy, she suffers extravagantly an... More
Book Information
PublisherLittle, Brown and Company Books for Young Readers
BindingPaperback (11 editions)
Reading LevelUncategorized
# of Pages200
ISBN-100349114021
ISBN-13978-0349114026
Publication Date05/2001
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About Jane Gardam (Author) : Jane Gardam is a published author of children's books. Some of the published credits of Jane Gardam include Old Filth, The Hollow Land, Bilgewater (Abacus Books).
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6/22/2007 Gina Marysol Ruiz

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