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Golden Sandal: A Middle Eastern Cinderella
by Rebecca Hickox

An Iraqi version of the Cinderella story in which a kind and beautiful girl who is mistreated by her stepmother and stepsister finds a husband with the help of a magic fish. Ages 6 – 12.

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