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Five stars for the emotional gut punch of the story. Three stars for the characterization of the boys. So I will average it out at 4 stars. I grew up in this time period but I grew up in a rural area. There were definitely the cool, really well-to-do kids and the not so well to do kids whose parents did not have the elite college and hospital jobs. However, there were never the gang fights and beatings that this book portrayed. It was a much more innocent environment and I am definitely glad tha
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