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Z is for Zerna

TIME STAMP 1930–1970

ZERNA SHARP never had kids of her own, but her children, as she called them—Dick, Jane, and Baby Sally—became American icons as the main characters of schoolbooks used across the nation. If you were in first grade in America between

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