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George Scheber

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Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: The author lives in the Kankakee area.

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Primary Literary Genre(s): Fiction

Primary Audience(s): Children

George Scheber on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=george+scheber

Selected Titles

Earl joins the circus /
ISBN: 1878847015 OCLC: 62248231

Make Me a Story Press, Sheldon, IL : ©2005.

Earl, a squirrel with one enormous front tooth, joins a traveling circus and entertains the crowd.
Earl the squirrel /
ISBN: 1878847007 OCLC: 61502737

Make Me a Story Press, Sheldon, IL : 2005.

Earl the squirrel is a squirrel with a big tooth and an even bigger heart.

 

 

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