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Ellie still exists in 2023's avatar

I wasn't "bitching." I am so sorry we don't have the same taste in reading material. Two comments do not equate to "whining so much about it," especially since it was my daughter (not a boy) who was assigned the book in school in 1986, and I made no objection to it being assigned, then or now. My children always had books; their own, and whatever they borrowed from the pubic library and the school libraries. YMMV

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Brenda Grevson's avatar

I have not read the book but have seen the movie. I can understand how the book would continue to resonate with kids today. Not much has changed. I graduated high school in 1969 from a rural community. As a kid growing up on a farm, there was a definite division between the town kids & the farm kids. My parents would remind us that without the farmers the town kids parents would be out of work because every business in our town of 1200 was supported by the farmers.

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