2 Weeks With The Queen
Two Weeks with the Queen (ISBN 0-399-22249-9) is a 1990 novel by Australian author Morris Gleitzman. It is about a boy, named Colin Mudford, who is sent to live in England while his brother is being treated for cancer.
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