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Abandonment: The new realism of the eighties

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  1. Kent State University, Kent, USA

    Marilyn Fain Apseloff (Professor of English)

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She is the author ofThey Wrote for Children Too (Greenwood Press, 1989),Elizabeth George Speare (Twayne, 1992), and has co-authoredNonsense Literature for Children (Library Professional Publications, 1989) with Celia Catlett Anderson.

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Apseloff, M.F. Abandonment: The new realism of the eighties. Child Lit Educ 23, 101–106 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01141847

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