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  1. Kate DiCamillo _ Despereaux = Tale of

    Farewell" is not the word that you would like to hear from your mother as you are being led to the dungeon by 2 oversize mice in black hoods.Words that you would like to hear are "Take me instead, I will go to the dungeon in my sons place." There is a great deal of comfort in those words.
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  2. Kate DiCamillo _ Despereaux = Tale of

    At the thought of being eaten by rats, Despereaux forgot about being brave. He forgot about not being a disappointment. He felt himself heading into another faint. But his mother, who had an excellent sense of dramatic timing, beat him to it; she executed a beautiful, flawless swoon, landing right at Despereaux's feet.
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  3. Kate DiCamillo _ Despereaux = Tale of

    Love, as we have already discussed, is a powerful, wonderful, ridiculous thing, capable of moving mountains. And spools of thread.
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  4. Kate DiCamillo _ Despereaux = Tale of

    Reader, you must know that an interesting fate {sometimes involving rats, sometimes not} awaits almost everyone, mouse or man, who does not conform.
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  5. Kate DiCamillo _ Despereaux = Tale of

    There are those hearts, reader, that never mend again once they are broken. Or if they do mend, they heal themselves in a crooked and lopsided way, as if sewn together by a careless craftsman. Such was the fate of Chiaroscuro. His heart was broken. Picking up the spoon and placing it on his head, speaking of revenge, these things helped him to put his heart together again. But it was, alas, put together wrong.
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