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Gr 9 Up—Like a snarky SparkNotes, this mischievous, charming collection turns 100 classics into brief comic strips. Brown is an observant reader, and her comedic timing is impeccable. "Writers make the best of friends," she notes in her summary of E.B. White's Charlotte's Web. "And then they DIE." At times, she pushes readers to reconsider the canon. She transforms the Ingalls family of Little House on the Prairie from American heroes to "pioneers with a sense of entitlement," and she p...Log In or Sign Up to Read More