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Can we reminisce about this amazing fucking novel? My mother just ordered several copies for a class and left them around to be read (my mother being the type to read almost everything her kids read -- I used to think she was doing it to be a responsible parent, now I think it's more she just liked to read).

It's funny, but the whole diptheria/nazi experiment thing doesn't seem more horrific now that I'm older (but then it was plenty horrific when I was a child and isn't any less now), but the fact that Jesse and her siblings were kept away from their parents for FOUR MONTHS after they got sick really horrifies me. The reporter's right when he says that the state was way overcompensating. That's just messed up -- most of those parents were perfectly fit.

Also, I still have the same feeling when I finished the book when I was ten: I want a sequel that focuses on the trial of Clifton's men!!! I want to see the arguments for the defense and Jesse testifying and her mother justifying sending out a 13-year-old (which of course was the desperate literally only way to save everyone) for help when the government kept her kids from her for doing it. Yeah, I wanted Ma to lay a verbal smack-down on anyone who questioned her choice to send Jesse out.

And apparently I don't remember anything that happened in that book. Except that I LOVED it.

I so want sequel about the aftermath.

Or a movie that goes into it.

I loved this book. <3

Margaret Peterson Haddix is a goddess. I remember as a little kid going over to that corner of the library where all her books were? I eventually read all the ones the libraray had. Most of them multiple times.
Learning about the existence of The Village pissed me off. I still won't watch it, on principle.

When I read that book in elementary school, I loved it, but I also completely didn't missed the point because I agreed with the scientist who explained why the village was created. I thought it would have been better if they just let the experiment run the way it was supposed to. What the kids didn't know couldn't hurt them, and their descendants would be better off. I thought the mom was selfish for only thinking of the present and sending her daughter out like that.

... Whoops.

I should re-read this; its been years!

I remember thinking it was weird that these historical kids were using words like "okay". I thought, "Isn't this supposed to be a historical fiction?" Then I got to a certain part and it all clicked.

The parts I remember most was the main character looking at the sick kids through a one way mirror (I think?), and trying on blue jeans for the first time.

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