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These are the most recent 10 blog posts about For the Good of the Children: A History of the Boys and Girls Republic in JacketFlap's Children's Publishing Blog Reader

Subjects

• 20th century
• Boys and Girls Republic (Juven
• Boys and Girls Republic (Juvenile home)
• Charities & voluntary services
• Child welfare
• Children
• Children's Studies
• History
• History - General History
• History - U.S.
• History / United States / State & Local / General
• History of specific subjects
• History: specific events & topics
• Institutional care
• Michigan
• Philanthropy & Charity
• Problem children
• Problem youth
• Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare
• Research
• Social Issues, Services & Welfare
• Social research & statistics
• Social Science
• Sociology
• Sociology, Social Studies
• United States - State & Local - General
• USA
• Youth

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Editions

• For the Good of the Children: A History of the Boys and Girls Republic (Great Lakes Books)
  Wayne State University Press, Hardcover, 2003

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