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| | Susan Cooper, Green Boy |
 | | Better to leave Lou the way he is, a child who cannot speak, suffers painful and frightening seizures, and whose future as an adult will be sharply constrained, than expose him to the corrupting influence of the big city and heartless doctors who want to cure him rather than understand his specialness. |
 | | In Cooper's lone nod to complexity, the rebels turn out to be as ruthless as the evil high-tech rulers. |
 | | Like all of Cooper's work, this is a beautifully written and evocative novel, with a number of astonishing images. |
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