Subjects: New England -- Juvenile fiction, Boys -- Juvenile fiction, PZ, PS, I
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The Story of a Bad Boy (1870) is a semi-autobiographical novel by American writer Thomas Bailey Aldrich, fictionalizing his experiences as a boy in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The book is considered the first in the "bad boy" genre of literature, though the text's opening lines admit that he was "not such a very bad, but a pretty bad boy". From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).