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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction: Childhood in America: Past and Present | |
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| Before the Birth of One of Her Children | |
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| Women as Childbearers, 1650-1750 | |
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| Brought to Bed: Childbearing in America | |
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| Mothers' Sacred Duty: Breast-Feeding Patterns among Middle- and Upper-Class Women in the Antebellum South | |
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| Reconstructing Motherhood: The La Leche League in Postwar America | |
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| Amazing Births: Medical History in "Miracle" Births | |
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| Woman Gives Birth to Baby Conceived outside the Body | |
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| The Eggs, Embryos, and I | |
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| The Egg Women | |
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| Choosing Childlessness | |
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| Thoughts on Child Rearing | |
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| The Use of Reason in Child Rearing | |
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| Toys | |
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| The Cry | |
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| Too Much Mother Love | |
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| The Mother-Child Dyad Revisited: Perceptions of Mothers and Children in Twentieth-Century Child-Rearing Manuals | |
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| Child Science and the Rise of the Experts | |
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| The Construction of Reality in the Child | |
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| Understanding the Infant | |
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| Mothers and Fathers Working and Rearing Children | |
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| In Reference to Her Children, 23 June, 1659 | |
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| Breeching Little Ffrank | |
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| Suits and Frocks | |
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| American Girlhood in the Nineteenth Century | |
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| Nineteenth-Century Boys' Literature | |
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| Briar Rose | |
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| Little Women | |
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| Nancy Drew and the Secret of the Old Clock | |
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| The Sexual Life of the Child | |
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| Feminine Psychology | |
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| Male and Female: Sex and Temperament | |
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| Infantile Sexuality | |
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| Moral Reasoning in Girls and Boys | |
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| How Schools Shortchange Girls | |
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| Courtship and Gender Differences | |
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| Children's Voices from the Civil War | |
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| Adolescence in Historical Perspective | |
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| The Physiology and Psychology of Adolescence | |
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| Compulsory Schooling and Parent-Adolescent Relations | |
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| The Natural History of the Gang | |
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| Adolescent Girls in Samoa and America | |
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| Identity, Youth, and Crisis | |
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| Anorexia Nervosa in the 1980s | |
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| Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls | |
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| Families Started by Teenagers | |
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| Why the Young Kill | |
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| Petting | |
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| The Member of the Wedding | |
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| Manchild in the Promised Land | |
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| Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story | |
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| Adulthood? Later, Dude! | |
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| Family Life in Plymouth Colony | |
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| Protecting Children from Abusing Masters | |
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| Inculcating Self-Discipline | |
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| Introducing Children into the Social Order | |
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| A Milder and Warmer Family Government | |
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| Learning Self-Control | |
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| The Life of a Slave Child | |
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| Managing Young Children | |
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| Corporal Punishment | |
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| Cracking Down on Kids | |
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| Fathers/Masters: Children/Servants | |
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| Children's Involuntary Labor | |
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| Apprentices, Servants, and Child Labor | |
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| Children and Manufactures | |
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| Choosing a Trade | |
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| Children in the Mills | |
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| Children at Work in the City | |
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| A Child Worker in the Garment Industry | |
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| The Changing Social Value of Children | |
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| Coming of Age in Mississippi | |
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| Children and the New Deal | |
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| American Children in the Second World War | |
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| Child Labor and the Law | |
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| Working Children in Contemporary Chinatown | |
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| Education and the Concept of Childhood | |
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| Family Instruction in Early Massachusetts | |
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| A Puritan Education | |
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| Emile | |
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| Moral Education for Citizenship | |
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| The Education of Mary Anna Longstreth | |
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| Tom Sawyer's Examination Day | |
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| The Child and the Curriculum | |
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| Testing the IQ of Children | |
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| For the Love of Books | |
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| School Desegregation | |
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| Education in the Post-Sputnik Era | |
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| Children of Crisis | |
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| Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez | |
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| The Quest for Clarity | |
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| Children and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act | |
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| The Theory of Multiple Intelligences | |
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| Mother's Little Helper: Ritalin and Attention Deficit Disorder | |
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| Kidnapping and White Servitude | |
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| Orphans' Court | |
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| Abraham Lincoln and Sarah Bush Lincoln | |
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| A Childhood in Slavery | |
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| Placing Orphan Children with Farm Families | |
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| Huckleberry Finn | |
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| Shadow of the Plantation: Separation and Adoption | |
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| Surviving the Breakup: How Children Respond to Divorce | |
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| Solomon's Children: The New Biologism, Psychological Parenthood, Attachment Theory, and the Best Interests Standard | |
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| Fit to Be a Parent? | |
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| Lesbian Parents in Custody Disputes | |
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| Surrogacy and Child Custody | |
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| Teenage Voices from Foster Care | |
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| Foster Care and the Politics of Compassion | |
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| Orphanage Revival Gains Ground | |
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| Waifs of the City's Slums | |
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| Preserving the Home | |
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| The Mothers' Aid Movement | |
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| Infant Mortality | |
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| Polio | |
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| "Welcome to Willowbrook" | |
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| Kidnapping in Contemporary America | |
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| The Last Frontier in Child Abuse | |
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| By Silence Betrayed: The Sexual Abuse of Children in America | |
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| Miscounting Social Ills | |
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| Psychiatric Hospitals for Juveniles? | |
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| Couple Held in Beating of Daughter | |
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| A Glimpse into a Hell for Helpless Infants | |
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| An Infant's Death, an Ancient "Why?" | |
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| Media Violence and Children | |
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| A Teenage Voice from Foster Care | |
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| The Turn of the Screw | |
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| Child-Loving: The Erotic Child and Victorian Culture | |
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| Polymorphous Perversity | |
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| Delinquent Daughters: The Age-of-Consent Campaign | |
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| Coming of Age in Samoa | |
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| Preadolescent Sexuality | |
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| Lolita | |
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| The Disappearance of Childhood: The Total Disclosure Medium | |
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| The Assault on Truth: Freud's Suppression of the Seduction Theory | |
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| The Unraveling of a Monstrous Secret | |
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| On Prison Computer, Files to Make Parents Shiver | |
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| The Politics of Parental Notification | |
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| The Family in the Social Order | |
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| The Child-Saving Movement | |
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| The Progressive-Era Transformation of Child Protection, 1900-1920 | |
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| The State as Superparent | |
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| The Children's Bureau | |
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| The Establishment of Juvenile Courts | |
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| Juvenile Court and the Artistry of Approach | |
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| The Children's Charter | |
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| The First Amendment in School | |
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| Juveniles' Right to Due Process | |
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| Punishing Very Young Criminals | |
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| Vote for Eighteen-Year-Olds: What Justices Said on Both Sides | |
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| The Right to Vote | |
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| Now That the Voting Age Is Lower ... | |
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| Contraception | |
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| Abortion | |
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| Mental Health and the Rights of the Child | |
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| Visitation Rights | |
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| A Voice for the Child? | |
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| United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child | |
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| The Material Culture of Early Childhood: The Upright Child | |
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| My Life in the South | |
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| A Russian Jewish Girlhood on the Lower East Side | |
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| Quiet Odyssey: A Pioneer Korean Woman in America | |
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| Call It Sleep | |
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| Young Lonigan | |
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| Growing Up Native American: The Language We Know | |
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| Down These Mean Streets | |
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| I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings | |
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| China Boy | |
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| Talking to High Monks in the Snow: An Asian American Odyssey | |
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| The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | |
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| The Days Gone By | |
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| The Wizard of Oz | |
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| Anne of Green Gables | |
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| The Sneetches | |
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| Snozzcumbers | |
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| American Children and Their Books | |
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| Children in Fiction and Fact | |
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| Kids' Stuff: Toys and the Changing World of American Childhood | |
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| What Makes Nick Tick: Nickelodeon Is a Sensibility, a World, an All-Empowering Club. It's CNN for Children | |
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| Children's Literary Voices | |
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| Sources | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Editors | |