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The Story of a Bad Boy
novel by Aldrich
The Story of a Bad Boy, classic childrenās novel by Thomas Bailey Aldrich, published serially in Our Young Folks (1869) and in book form in 1870. An autobiographical book about a happy boyhood, it was the first full-length childrenās book in which the protagonist was a realistic boy instead of a priggish paragon.
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