Poor Jenny, Bright As a Penny

Poor Jenny, Bright As a Penny

Shirley Rousseau Murphy

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1974

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Fifteen-year-old Jenny struggles to hold together her impoverished family despite drugs, drunkenness, a jail sentence, and death.

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Shirley Rousseau Murphy

Shirley Rousseau Murphy (born 1928) is an American author.

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