and makes the extraordinary leap to go to college

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Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends

And it soon becomes clear that their survival depends on outsmarting not only an invisible and tenacious force

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The Puritan as Yankee: A Life of Horace Bushnell Egypt and makes the extraordinary leapHorace Bushnell, the much maligned 19th century liberal pastor scholar theologian, is here vindicated as a deeply conservative Puritan and misunderstood intellectual of his time. In this biography, Mullin considers Bushnell in the context of his time and milieu. While calling him a "flinty character," Mullin argues that Bushnell was quintessentially a Yankee and a Puritan, seeking innovation yet all the while sustained by a bedrock trust in the values