Volume 40, Number 20 · December 2, 1993
Supergirls
By Diane Johnson
Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang
by Joyce Carol Oates
Dutton/a William Abrahams book, 328 pp., $21.00
Like Pride and Prejudice, David Copperfield, or Catcher in the Rye, many enduring novels not intended for adolescents eventually find their way onto junior high school reading lists. That bright period when we are ourselves the hero, lost in the tale, enraptured and transported, remains for most of us a memory of ideal reading when we identify with the heroes and heroines of books, and absorb both the story and its covert lessons in a way we eventually lose the ability to do.
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