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Reading, Anxiety, and How the Reader Became the Writer

Reading, Anxiety, and How the Reader Became the Writer

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When we’re on the cusp between elementary school and middle school, one of the scariest things we can think of is going to a new school and sitting at a lunch table alone.

At least, that was what used to frighten me as a small-town girl growing up in an insulated …