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READING in The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
CHAIR in Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
FISH in The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
PAIN in The Aeneid by Virgil
MYSTERIES in Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
FOREST in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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LAKE in Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
WONDER in Hard Times by Charles Dickens
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MIND in Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
THEY WERE in A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
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