READ TO ME SPREE WEEK...with Patricia Smith
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SPREE WEEK DAY 2, we dive straight in at Chapter 1 of THE YEAR OF NEEDY GIRLS by Patricia Smith. Here, the stakes of the entire novel are set with a sure hand, in just three pages. Here we meet Deidre, one half of the main couple of Deidre and Sara Jane. Deirdre is a teacher in a town that\\u2019s just been cleaved through the heart \\u2014 even though no one quite knows it yet.
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