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She's in tenth grade,' he said. 'I hear she's been homeschooled till now.' Maybe that explains it,' I said.

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Jerry Spinelli
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: February 1
Novelist
Writer
Norristown
Pennsylvania
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Maybe
Tenth
Explains
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