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Agatha Donkar Lund
Aug 31, 2007 rated it it was amazing
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When I was 14 or 15, I really, desperately wanted to go to Cornell for college -- and it was all because of this book, which is part coming of age story, part fairy tale, part entirely its own entity. Magical and amazing, and for me, it still holds up, more than 10 years later.
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Nov 01, 2008 rated it liked it
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