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I listened to the audio version of this Newbery winner, and found it quite boring. It is about a young girl growing up in rural Wisconsin and all of her adventures. There isn't really a continuous storyline, just a series of little stories. I don't know if the characters were actually annoying, or if it was just the way the narrator read the book that I found annoying, but whatever it was, I was annoyed. Everyone was whiny or overdramatic, except for Indian John, whose broken English sounds so i
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I read this book as a child and loved it, but I had forgotten most of it. Reading the book now fit it so well with the family research I am doing because Caddie lived in the same area of Wisconsin as my Irish ancestors and during the same period of time. The details in the lives of Caddie and her family made me think about the lives of my ancestors. It made the book almost personal to me.
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I remember this book and I read it a long time ago. That's saying something.
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