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Hatchet by Gary Paulsen Review by Rae Richen I have a young friend who used to have trouble reading. We meet twice a week and he works on his skills in reading. He is now in the eighth grade. When we first met, he had the habit of skipping lines, not thinking about the meaning of the words, phrases and sentences he read. When confronted with long words, he would pick a word out of the air that might make sense. That was some time ago. By this year, he has leaned to use his pl

Silverview: A Novel by John Le Carré Review by Rae Richen John Le Carré’s last novel, edited by his son Nick Cornwell, is a delightful exhibition of characters and insights. Julian Lawndsley, a relative naïve in the political and spy world, narrates his encounters with a con artist, Edward and his mysterious family. When Lawndsley leaves his city job and opens a bookstore in the beach town in East Anglia, he becomes enamored of the obvious people user and irrepressible liar,