Kolya Krassotkin is a pompous, imperfectly self-aware, but ultimately well-intentioned thirteen-year-old who attracts our hero Alyosha's attention. He deserves ours as well--for through  him, we learn how to keep child characters from becoming clichés, and to make our readers root for these darn kids.

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