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Audrey
I read this several times as a kid, but it’s been a long time. My dad first read it to me when I was really little, and my mom recently told me I was almost named Becky Thatcher.

There’s a nostalgia factor for childhood in the mid-1800s, when boys lived on superstition and visions of daring and heroism. It covers one “adventure” followed by another, so it’s more episodic than a single story arc. I can hardly believe how tough and resourceful kids were then, but I have watched society become less
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