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The Unbearable Book Club fo...

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Seven-Day Magic

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The Kingdom of Carbonel (Ca...

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Blue Willow

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"During Great Depression, girl who loves to read is spellbound by display of new books at county fair.(but whose family "
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The Velvet Room

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"I think this was inspired by BLUE WILLOW by Doris Gates--which with SECRET GARDEN by Frances Hodgeson Burnett, I think inspired CAROLINA CROW GIRL (in which girl's flighty mother lines their former school bus home with shelves of books). Memoir by migrant farm boy (who eventually became college professor) is THE CIRCUIT; in one of his books he describes findign battered copy of DOCTOR DOOLITTLE, which became a text book for him (English was his second language). "
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Thimble Summer

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"Chapter where girl is accidentally locked inside library at night describes something many book lovers wish they could experience (but is less likely nowadays, due to motion sensers to protect coomputers from thefty--reason why live-in library cats had to retire too....."
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