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A sweet book, this was an enjoyable read that I wish I had read as a child. I think I would have embraced it whole-heartedly at the age of ten, when I was devouring books like Little Women or All of a Kind Family that are set in roughly the same era. As an adult, I'm a much more critical reader. I enjoyed the book quite a bit, but was somewhat flummoxed by the general lack of emotional depth. There are two very upsetting sections. The second section was intended to be very sad, and was, to a cer
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