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Giveaway: Operation Oleander by Valerie O. Patterson (US only)

Giveaway: Operation Oleander by Valerie O. Patterson (US only)
Operation Oleander by  Valerie O. Patterson Release date: March 5, 2013 Ninth-grader Jess Westmark had the best of intentions when she started Operation Oleander to raise money for a girls’ orphanage in Kabul. She named her charity for the oleander that grows both in her Florida hometown and in Afghanistan, where her...
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Oleander grows in Florida her hometown and in Afghanistan where her father is serving.
Monday, 04 March 2013 12:51
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Because it grows in her hometown and where her father is serving
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Because it only grows in Florida, her home town, and Afghanistan where her father is serving.
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