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The guys' clubhouse.

Publication: The Horn Book Magazine
Publication Date: 01-SEP-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
I didn't even ask why I was turning into Holden Caulfield. I was fifteen, a poster girl for postwar innocence. And I was a farm kid, three thousand miles away from Holden's Manhattan; I took violin lessons, rode my bike through orchards, memorized social-studies facts, picked strawberries to make money, earned Camp Fire Girl honor beads. I also sought the right bras, the right pimple medicine, the boys most likely to alarm my family.

The Catcher in the Rye came into my life at a rummage sale, and I read it in one evening. Within the next few days, I heard myself reciting whole paragraphs...

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