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The Silent Boy Reviewed by Lori Atkins Goodson, Wamego Middle School, Wamego, Kansas, USA.
At age 10, Katy Thatcher is absorbing everything she can from her father, the town's doctor, who travels from home to home to provide old-fashioned medical care. It's the early 1900s, and new ways of life--the telephone, the automobile, and new approaches in medical treatments--are just emerging in the homes around her rural New England community. And Katy has her young eyes...
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