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Chickenpox

Laughter about the Lai siblings’ antics in Remy Lai’s semi-autobiographical novel Chickenpox will be as contagious as chickenpox was in the ’90s.

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Review of ‘Chickenpox’

When Abby Lai was young, she wished for a sibling to play with. Her parents granted her wish . . . four times over. Now the oldest of five, 12-year-old Abby tries to spend as much time outside her house as possible. After all, as she says in the epigraph of Chickenpox, “Younger siblings are…

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