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2018
Volume 112, Issue 1
  • ISSN: 0013-8274
  • E-ISSN: 2161-8895

Abstract

After several semesters of isolated online learning, students needed opportunities to reconnect; reading young adult science fiction—a genre of what-ifs—helped a class of seniors discuss how identities affect relationships.

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