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Many people recommended The Help, by Kathryn Stockett, in which several narrators use dialect. I don’t even like to look at a page of written-out dialect, because for me, the necessary incorrect spelling and grammar is like music played out of tune. I didn’t want to read it. But since I have to drive a lot, I listen to a lot of recorded books. I just finished...[read on]Caroline B. Cooney's novels have sold over 15,000,000 copies and are published in several languages. The Face on the Milk Carton has sold over 3,000,000 copies and was made into a
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Read an excerpt from They Never Came Back, and learn more about the author and her work at Caroline Cooney's website.
Writers Read: Caroline B. Cooney.
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