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Pop Lit

When secrets meet the light

By Diane White
May 10, 2009

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Two of these novels have a common theme, a parent's decision to shield a child from the truth. The third is an old-fashioned entertainment about a strange, gifted boy in the 19th-century Oxford of Charles Darwin and John Ruskin. (Full article: 929 words)

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