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The Little Fig-tree Stories

by Mary Hallock Foote

Level B2 · Upper-intermediateChildren's11 chapters
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CEFR level
B2
Length
11 chapters
Format
The complete book

About this book

About this book

In a garden where blossoming trees debate their fate, four young fig trees struggle with their mysterious lack of flowers, longing to understand their nature and earn their place in the cycle of spring and harvest.

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Contents

11 chapters in all. The first chapter is free to read with no account.

02AUTHOR’S NOTE
03FLOWER OF THE ALMOND AND FRUIT OF THE FIG
04THE LAMB THAT COULDN’T “KEEP UP”
05DREAM-HORSES
06AN IDAHO PICNIC
07A VISIT TO JOHN’S CAMP
08NOVEMBER IN THE CAÑON
09THE GATES ON GRANDFATHER’S FARM
10THE GARRET AT GRANDFATHER’S
11THE SPARE BEDROOM AT GRANDFATHER’S

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