Starbird Murphy and the World Outside

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Copyright © 2014 by Karen Finneyfrock

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Finneyfrock, Karen.

Starbird Murphy and the world outside / by Karen Finneyfrock.

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Summary: “Starbird has spent the first sixteen years of her life on a commune in the woods of Washington State. When she gets her Calling to become a waitress at the farm's satellite restaurant in Seattle, it means leaving behind the only place she's ever known and entering the World Outside”—Provided by publisher.

ISBN 978-0-698-13653-3

[1. Cults—Fiction. 2. Communal living—Fiction. 3. High schools—Fiction. 4. Schools—Fiction. 5. Waiters and waitresses—Fiction. 6. Washington (State)—Fiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.F49835St 2014 [Fic]—dc23 2013027007

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Dedicated to Louis and Judith Finneyfrock,

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