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What would Junie B. Jones do?
"Mr. Jacobson sniffs little girls' bicycle seats," eight year old Benjamin Carter announced cavalierly as though the topic made for polite dinner conversation.
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Simple Hearts
Foul-mouthed Marna Copparelli, who waitresses at Guido's Pizza, wouldn't know a semicolon from a large intestine. Luther Buttafuoco writes books that get reviewed in the New York Times literary
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Nothing as Whole as a Broken Heart
Jerome Spellman, the simple schizophrenic in Grace's eleventh grade class, acts like an extra in a B-rated horror flick - Night of the Living Dead.
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No More Piano Lessons
Muriel Beagle was an awful piano teacher. An abomination! Thirty minutes - that's all she allotted per lesson, and most days she started late or was interrupted by
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The Loveliest Girl
Among the Old Orchard Beach cognoscenti, Cassie Moffat was considered town slut. Whether her lurid reputation was justified or not wasn't really open for debate.
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