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Avid readers construct perceptions of the world through ongoing experimentation with the porous boundary between fiction and reality, grafting their favourite stories onto their quotidian lives. From the child who sees her propensity for causing trouble in Anne of Green Gables, the teenager who finds in Bilbo Baggins her own conflict between staying home and leaving on an adventure, to the ... Read more

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