1.   Children, of course, usually leave adults in the pinstriped dust when it comes to independent thinking.

2.   McMurtry uncovers the late child in all of us but in this new novel that is where he stops, leaving the adult out of the picture.

3.   Some blame residential mobility that leaves adults with fewer links to communities.

4.   The children are usually tucked out of sight, leaving the adults to have at one another.

5.   They talk HPs and evolutions and monsters named Magneton, Snorlax and Vulpix with a speed and assurance that leaves adults in a daze.

6.   But the adults were not left out.

7.   The South Korean aid will run out next month, leaving adults on their own until a small June harvest.