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Article: HITTING THE BOOKS SOME SCHOOLS KEEP SUMMER READING LISTS.(Local)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- August 21, 1988
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Byline: Tim Spofford Staff writer
Summer used to be a time when youngsters would find a shady tree to swill a soda and page through a bulging volume by Mark Twain, Herman Melville or Nathaniel Hawthorne.
They rafted down the Mississippi with Huck and Jim, chased the white whale with Captain Ahab and watched as Hester Prynne, that lady of the scarlet A, emerged from prison with her baby.
In summers past, young readers used to get their first glimpse of an atomic holocaust from the pages of John Hersey's "Hiroshima," or witness Nazi justice through the eyes of a young German girl named Anne Frank.
In those days, before VCRs and ...