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None of [the books are] worth reading. There are no fairy tales, no faerie tails, no sword-swinging princesses or lightning-throwing gods.

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Laurie Halse Anderson
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: October 23
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Laurie Beth Halse
Worth
Tails
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Princess
Reading
Lightning
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Throwing
Fairy
Princesses
Tales
Faerie
Gods
Swinging
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Sword

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