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'The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die
Welcome to 'Fine Lines', the feature in which we give a sentimental look-back to the children's and YA books we loved in our youth. This week, writer/reviewer/blogger Lizzie Skurnick re-reads the 1983 Julian F. Thompson young adult classic 'The Grounding Of Group 6'.
The people in their group, Group 6, were all sixteen, all five of them, and of none of them was fat.
It's been a while since literature gave us a good child slaying. I mean, obvs parents in books kill their children all the time — leave babies in the woods, drown them, let them be stolen by bad people, drown them, let them be drown'd, don't notice they've stopped breathing, let them get strangled and ra— Oh, right, MOTHERS in books kill their children. (Men STEAL them...for their own good!) In any case, you are still hard-pressed to find a group of well-off parents offing their offspring — who have, by the way, managed not to be fat — for no good reason at all. More »
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