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Louisiana's Way Home

by Kate DiCamillo

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Louisiana's Way Home by Kate DiCamillo appears in NPR’s 2018 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around kids’ books, family matters, seriously great writing, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.

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