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Has anyone read/know about What in the Dickens by Gregory Maguire?


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I know some of the main characters in this book are homeschooled. I was just wondering if the book portrays h-schooling in a positive or negative fashion? I could just pick up the book and read it for myself, but I am working my way through 3 others and I thought I could "cheat" and ask you ladies instead :). My daughter was told this was a great book and she is dying to read it.

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It's used as a device to explain why the children were a bit isolated from what was going on in the rest of the community, and I inferred that that was maybe why the family had chosen to stay in their home when so many of their neighbors had left.I don't believe the danger to the community was anything physical;it may have been an economic crisis of some sort.From my scanning of the book I picked up that the parents (who are not present in the story) did know what was going on and had gone to either assist others or to get supplies for the family.Most of the story is a story within a story and has nothing to do with hsing.As an adult,I found the initial story far more interesting and I read those parts and skimmed through most of the book which was the story being told.The ways that the children choose to cope with the "disappearance" of their parents is a reflection on their personalities,not hsing.

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