Puffin’s Canadian Children’s Classics
read some local children’s fiction; mostly bad
read some local children’s fiction; mostly bad
the eulogy I read at my grandmother’s funeral in 2014
a dark, engaging, affecting read
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midlands novel and a road trip into childhood
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