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ROBERT BELL

In addition to writing a very satisfying story, [Honor Arundel] shows quite outstanding skill in character drawing [in Green Street]. The children are very real, and their reactions to situations absolutely genuine. It is refreshing to find that the adults, so often conventional and even shadowy figures in the background in books of this kind, are just as skilfully portrayed. There is no fantasy or contrivance, or any attempt to avoid the problems and disappointments which inevitably temper the successes. It is a most sincere and heart-warming book…. (p. 222)

Robert Bell, "Eleven to Fifteen: 'Green Street'," in The School Librarian and School Library Review, Vol. 14, No. 1, March, 1966, pp. 221-22.

In Green Street Honor Arundel brings to life a whole street in Edinburgh and the people in it…. There is a most heartening combination of children from different social levels, united in...

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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
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