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LINDA CROWE

[The theme of The Two Sisters] is young adult and adolescent disillusionment with parents, which ought to be enough to attract a ready audience at this age level. Unfortunately, some exceptionally well-drawn characters inhabit a distant, special setting mired in an over-used and predictable plot…. All of the characters have some growing up to do, but by the end of the story, they assume incredible, superhuman proportions….

Linda Crowe, "Grades 3-6: 'The Two Sisters'," in School Library Journal, an appendix to Library Journal (reprinted from the April, 1969 issue of School Library Journal, published by R. R. Bowker Co./A Xerox Corporation; copyright © 1969), Vol. 15, No. 8, April, 1969, p. 109.

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1. Introduction
2. Robert Bell
3. Polly Goodwin
4. S. L. Blanford
5. Linda Crowe
6. Zena Sutherland
7. Mrs. J. M. Murphy
8. Margery Fisher
9. Mrs. J. Aldridge
10. Margery Fisher
11. Julia G. Russell
12. Judith Aldridge
13. John W. Conner
14. Nicholas Tucker
15. John W. Conner
16. Margery Fisher
17. Celia Boyd
18. Judith Aldridge
19. Vivienne Furlong
20. J. Russell
21. John Rowe Townsend
22. Eleanore Braun Luckey
23. Copyright