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    <body><![CDATA[this book is about a seventeen boy who broke away from his brutal father and fond himself a true home that he feels warm andcomfortable.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I learned that when things get hard at home to keep going.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Great book...  Fun read...  Enojyable...  Sweet...  Happy...  Quick...]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The first of his books I have read and so great----about running from a bad life and surprisingly finding a few people who help with a happy, new life.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A continuous poem that tells the story from the views of various characters. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Australian novel in verse.]]></body>
    
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