by Betsy Byars
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Recommended by Gretchen Rubin
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Adult, Most Recommended Books, and Fiction.
Tom dislikes spending the summer on his aunt's farm until he discovers a black fox in the forest and tracks her to her den....
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Adult, Most Recommended Books, and Fiction.
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Consider The Republic by Plato. Recommended by 10 sources.
“Plato stages an extended Socratic conversation that moves from concrete questions about justice into broad proposals about an ideal city, the structure of the soul, and what counts as reality and knowledge. Reading alternates brisk question-and-answer snippets with long, cumulative demonstrations that reward careful attention and annotation. Main value: a wealth of thought experiments for testing political and ethical intuitions. Main limitation: repetitive refutations, long policy sketches and dense metaphysical passages can feel abstruse and slow; patience and some philosophical background help.”
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