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Title: This book should be on high school reading lists
Review: This book should be on high school reading lists. I remember reading all sorts of classics when I was in high school about dysfunctional heroes who end up failing. This book was a pleasure to read. The only thing not dysfunctional is the soul of the teenage heroine: she lives in chaos and lawlessness; she has a handicap that she constantly needs to compensate for. Despite all that she becomes the leader and savior of a band of people.I couldn't put the book down. When I finished reading it, I felt inspired. Next to this book, The Catcher in the Rye, Lord of the Flies and Brave New World pale by comparison. I wish I had read The Parable of the Sower when I was a teenager -- even at 40, I got a lot out of it.
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