A winter mystery

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Judy Blume’s Superfudge was in our tiny school library, and I wolfed it down at the age of eight. From then, I was side-by-side with all of Judy’s kids, right the way up to 17-year-old Katherine in Fo

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Renee was bored. January was intensely boring. History told her that if she didn’t overcome that boredom it would lead to trouble – like the time she’d ended up waving a banner on the news. She didn’t