Dorothy's List: 'The Art of Secrets'
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When this group of students from Burlington's Hunt and Edmunds Middle Schools got together to discuss The Art of Secrets , some of them were meeting for the first time. So Edmunds librarian Carole Renca started them out with a matching game to allow the students to mingle. Some students had cards with the names of characters from The Art of Secrets , and others had cards with descriptions of the character.
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