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    Barn Mouse
    Barn Mouse
    Barn Mouse
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    Barn Mouse

    By Patricia J. Lengi

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    Join Barn Mouse with her adventures as she continues to search for home.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateJul 22, 2013
    ISBN9781479789276
    Barn Mouse
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    Patricia J. Lengi

    Patricia Stalder Lengi was born in Omak Washington and grew up in Pine Creek Washington a community of farmers and ranchers in the foothills outside of Tonasket Washington 30 miles from the Canadian border. She attended a one room school house throughout grade school and for most of that time her mother was the teacher. She was the Valedictorian of her high school class and graduated from Washington State University with highest honors. She joined CIA and served overseas in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland and Egypt. She also lived two years in Germany with her husband before settling down in Virginia.

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      Book preview

      Barn Mouse - Patricia J. Lengi

      Copyright © 2013 by Patricia J. Lengi. 128615-LENG

      ISBN:   Softcover   978-1-4797-8925-2

         Hardcover   978-1-4797-8926-9

         Ebook      978-1-4797-8927-6

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

      Rev. date: 07/17/2013

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      BARN HOUSE

      A New Home

      Cally

      Lost

      Searching

      The Junk Pile

      Home Again

      A NEW HOME

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      The winter months had been blustery and cold, but the mouse family was cozy in its nest in the haystack. As the frost glistened in the early morning sunlight, one little mouse sleepily yawned and stretched and began searching for a few wheat kernels for breakfast. She was a pretty mouse, with sleek light-brown fur, round delicate ears, and a pointed little nose that twitched her whiskers as she sniffed the chill air.

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      Contentedly munching on a kernel, she heard the whine of a tractor engine coming closer and closer; and she nervously wiped her whiskers as heavy footsteps crunched through the snow. Sensing danger, she flattened herself in the straw.

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      Suddenly, her home was flung into the air, and the mouse shook with

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