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| | From Dynamite Dinah to Dinah Forever. . . |
 | | Thus, when Dinah momentarily forgets the text of the poem shehas memorized for a class recitation, she compares this failure to her bestfriend Suzanne's past memory lapses at piano recitals: "This was like Suzanne'spiano recitals, but a hundred times worse. |
 | | Luckily, the action of Dynamite Dinah takes place in the spring offifth grade, so I could advance by moving Dinah to a new setting, on to thestart of sixth grade in middle school, where her growth from the first bookcould be tested against a whole new range of challenges. |
 | | All along Dinah has asserted that "Dinah Seabrookeisn't the type to like a boy"; at the end she realizes that people don't comein types, and that she isn't locked in to any particular image of herself.Dinah Seabrooke is whoever she is, and as she grows and changes,Dinah will, too. |
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