4th grade battle of books 2014
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| show | The main character has a grandmother who owns a bed and breakfast.
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| show | Mr. Harnox is a tourist.
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| show | "We're not bear-huggers in my family."
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| show | "And is that place half as weird inside as it is outside," Brian asked.
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| show | Sheriff Tisdall
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| show | "Rubbery flesh-colored chunks fell from his face as the Kleenex scraped away the disguise to reveal his true skin."
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| show | "P.S. I hope that you are getting a chance to throw your basketballs. I know that's important to you."
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| show | "Lately, it seems like GRADE jobs alone have been taking up most of my time."
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| show | "It's Disney World, dork," the tall one said. "Disneyland 's in California."
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| show | "She was talking like one of the sci-fi/fantasy club types."
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| show | "I just looked up these coins, and it turns out that nobody's seen anything like them before."
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| show | "Nah, let's play ball," said Eddie. "You wanna play, dontcha, big fella?"
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| show | "Mr. Harnox held on to the rim, wrenching the bolts right out of their sockets and ripping the rim clean off the backboard with a horrible screech."
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| show | "I told her about Tampa, and the basketball camp I was supposed to be at."
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| show | "There! A Jungle Boy, running through the dark forest."
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| show | Intergalactic Police Force
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| show | Commander Rezzlurr
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| show | "You've gone all this time without hiring a head security?"
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| show | "In a flash of inspiration, I decided to tell the truth. Part of it, anyway."
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| show | "The next time the bigger one shoots, jump up and smack the ball away."
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| show | "First off, did you know what some organisms survive in boiling water?"
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| show | "Amy, you know I'm glad that you came over."
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| show | "She popped open the stage makeup kit and pulled out a vial of flesh-colored liquid."
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| show | "They sure got the wilderness part right."
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| show | "Those are pancake."
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| show | "It’s all just a misunderstanding," I said. "They're not from around here."
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| show | "It was like those famous pictures of the Loch Ness Monster or Bigfoot."
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| show | "That's a colorful nickname."
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| show | He scratched his jowls with the back of his hand.
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| show | The person who stepped out made the whole scene even more bizarre.
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| show | Man, this place was even weirder than I expected.
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| show | "Oh many thanks and thanks of plenty to the little man."
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| show | I shivered. Only, I don't think that had much to do with the cold night.
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| show | A different kind of weird light woke me up next: sunlight.
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| show | I never know where to look when passing someone on the street.
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| show | The problem was, I never knew what to say to girls.
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| show | So we stood there, bobbing our heads at one another like a couple of mental patients.
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| show | "What are you, some kind of snarffle-eating tumberlite
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| show | I hardly ever call in Grandma for backup anymore.
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| show | "Oh , just, you know, someone. A girl. Selling chocolates."
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| show | The situation had hit DEFCON One.
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| show | His arms were folded across his chest, and he was chomping on his toothpick.
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| show | I mainly invited him so I wouldn't have to go down there alone.
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| show | His legs dangled in the air, kicking wildly, and he choked out a surprised scream.
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| show | My jaw must have fallen below my waist.
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| show | I pushed the wagon back on its wheels and piled on the camping gear.
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| show | "Water seeps into the cracks, and then when it gets hot enough it expands and shatters the rock."
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| show | "And the hideous part is because these two fingers are out of position.
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| show | I stood up choking and retching, and blindly took a few steps.
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| show | I rolled out of bed, wincing at the soreness in my knee and dozens of cuts and bruises all over.
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| show | She looked like a puppet with all of the strings cut.
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| show | "Do you have a search warrant?" I asked.
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| show | He stepped out from the shadows of a storage shed and into the gloomy pre-storm light.
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| show | I realized that maybe this wasn't the best plan in the world.
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| show | The picket fence was flattened as the mob surged away from the house.
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| show | They shook their heads and muttered from the opposite sidewalk as they walked past.
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| show | "A pretty good retirement plan, don't you think?"
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| show | "You knew?" it came out in a whisper.
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| show | The hairs on my arms stood straight up.
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| show | "Before we can do that we need to speak with your head of security." he said.
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| show | I exhaled, and it felt like the first time that I had really done so since the night of the mob.
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| show | That was a lot of zeros.
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| show | I smiled and hit SEND.
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| show | Their parents were "SPAM -cooking scientists".
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| show | "RUSTLE…RUSTLE…RUSTLE…CHOMP…CHOMP…CHOMP"
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| show | "'Forget those children' he thought. They had insignificant amounts of energy. They are irrelevant.'"
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| show | "Eating Mom's secret sauce probably mutated our DNA or something."
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| show | " *SPLURP is a rare sound made only by vats of SPAM juice and astronaut food bubbling in a thick, oozy, purplish greenish brownish molten lava kind of a way."
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| show | "I told you….all the cool kids watch the Plumbing Channel!"
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| show | "When asked about Professor Dewdy's predictions, Governor Winkleheiny responded, 'His name sounds like 'doody' "
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| show | "Fierce, Large, Ugly, and Ferocious Furballs."
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| show | "Exceptionally Exceptional Outdoors Experiences Guaranteed. No Exceptions.*"
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| show | "He overcame his fear by drawing and memorizing maps of his room…"
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| show | "At last, the path broadened in front of a small rickety building. It was the outhouse-a.k.a. the spa- from the brochure."
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| show | "Where Kevin liked to study a situation and make notes about it before deciding what to do next, Joules was more likely to poke a situation with a stick to see what would happen."
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| show | "'I am extremely disappointed in your behavior, Miss Rockman,' she said. " I have never seen such disregard for crafting and the enjoyment of other crafters.'"
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| show | "SmellyCat sighed, too, then they said something in GiggleSnort that sounded something like"GlitGlueFun", followed by a round of giggles and snorts."
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| show | "'Mom says that too much bacon can make your tail curly. I don't think that would be good, do you?'"
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| show | The flaming meteor hurtled through the endless, black void.
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| show | Well, they couldn't have two noses. The would be weird.
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| show | Camp Whatsitooya was on the shores of Lake Whatsosmelly
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| show | The campers ate at Café du Lac
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| show | Even though their faces looked nothing alike, the three girls seemed identical.
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| show | Push in case of flaming meteor attack, tennis elbow, or invasion by Swedes
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| show | Pushing the button initiated the URP
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| show | Joules hated crafts and golf on TV
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| show | She grabbed her glue guns like a cowboy with itchy trigger fingers.
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| show | Kevin saw a weird creature attack Ms. Jones
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| show | Joules followed a trail of clues that led into the deep ferns.
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| show | Spam - unnaturally square; unnaturally good.
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| show | Ms. Jones spoke like a robot, wore sunglasses and told them to call her Commander Jones.
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| show | Kevin kept a list of Things to Avoid
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| show | The campers needed a whole lot of Popsicle sticks to build a three-stage intergalactic rocket with satellite communications.
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| show | "Nature is your enemy!" said Counselor Blech.
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| show | In unison, they unscrewed the lids, raised the jars to their mouths, and gulped down the thick, white goop.
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| show | Their mission was world domination.
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| show | We now require a 103-inch plasma television with Dolby surround sound and a built-in gaming system.
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| show | They all grabbed at the pipe cleaners and started twisting them together and gluing feathers to the ends.
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| show | The invisible Earth frogs ate all the food and the telephone device.
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| show | Thunk. A strange noise woke Kevin. He sat bolt upright on his cot.
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| show | Jones grabbed Joule's stick and snapped it in two.
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| show | They had eyes that glowed softly and turned in opposite directions.
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| show | They ate other creatures, absorbed the creature's DNA and used a holographic field to look like the creature.
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| show | In a single bound, he cleared the fence and landed easily on the other side.
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| show | What happened next is best viewed in slow motion.
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| show | Ms. Jones was right. You can never have too many lanyards.
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| show | We must use our voices and preserve our telepathic powers.
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| show | This would be a great time to speak up because our heroes would really appreciate knowing.
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| show | Junior High School Musical Seven
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| show | They tried to turn everyone's brain into sweet mush
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| show | Astronaut food! This stuff never goes bad!
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| show | The aliens hate the secret sauce!
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| show | SPAM!!!!!
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| show | Remember this when you're grown up. It explains a lot about grown-ups.
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| show | Sometimes a good Plan B can keep you from being squished by truck-sized cockroaches.
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| show | Your love is like a graduation hat. Weird and square and sort of flat.
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| show | Now, Nelson!!!! She yelled. NOW!!!!
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| show | A ball of flame shot toward the ceiling. The fire sprinkler was activated.
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| show | They swam, sailed, canoed, hiked through the woods, and told ghost stories around the fire.
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| show | They hiked through the woods and back to the road where their parents had left them standing in the weeds seven short days before
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| show | "Ah, the huddled masses yearning to breathe free have arrived!"
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| show | "How come you can write on the wall, but if we do we get in trouble?"
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| show | "I was wondering if you have a tissue? My nose is running."
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| show | "I'm documenting some important evidence."
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| show | "I'm going to crack this case!" Patrick called
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| show | "It has to be someone with keys!" Destiny said.
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| show | "Let's put on a play for everybody in our class about a robbery and watch the audience."
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| show | "My dad said it was contaminated with too many finger prints."
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| show | "Safe and sound in Ms. Barrett's tank, " Mr. Crew said.
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| show | "Shh! I think I hear his broom!" Edgar whispered.
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| show | "Should we start with just the people in our class first?" Destiny asked
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| show | "The beautiful silk iris-the flower-that I had in my pencil cup is gone."
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| show | "The most famous plays- Shakespeare's plays- were all written in verse."
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| show | "The rhythm of your poem matches the rhythm of your dog running back and forth."
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| show | "Use your power of observation. Consider all the possibilities"
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| show | "Well, I guess my fish-sitting days are over," Ms. Barrett said.
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| show | "What if it's an ugly poem?" Taz said and laughed.
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| show | A card…From: Liz Barrett…To: Rob Browning
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| show | A coffee hog.
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| show | A small box of small wooden animals from Oaxaca, Mexico
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| show | As soon as they arrived in the music room, the team went to work.
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| show | As they walked in, Destiny gave him a secret smile.
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| show | For dinner that night: fish. On a bun. With tartar sauce.
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| show | Forgive me. I have good reasons.
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| show | Gabriella is Star of the Month.
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| show | He closed his notebook and let his new theory percolate.
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| show | He took his notebook outside and sat on the concrete steps.
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| show | I pretended I couldn't hear Patrick because of the wax build-up in my ears.
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| show | If I ever fall in love, I'm wearing sunglasses so nobody can tell.
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| show | I'll train it as a classroom guard dog.
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| show | I'm afraid he's going to solve the crime before me.
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| show | It's like she is wearing a mask that looks happy on the outside, but I can tell she's crying on the inside.
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| show | Last year his Dad tried to teach him how to play the accordion.
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| show | Maia was the fish who swam away to be with Gabriella.
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| show | Never fear Taz, I will prove your innocence
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| show | Poems are like mysteries that must be cracked open in order to be understood.
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| show | Stage Names: Tubby and Twig
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| show | The lesson on Aztec trade went in one ear and out the other.
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| show | The teacher set down her coffee cup.
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| show | The three new friends gave each other the thumbs up and rushed into the building.
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| show | They worked in the Clown Care Unit at Children's Hospital.
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| show | What a crime solver needs is a theory.
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| show | What kind of thieves danced?
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| show | Who was Taz calling in the middle of the school day, Edgar wondered?
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| show | You are mine now, the thief thought with a sly smile.
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| show | The thief crept in, taped a mysterious message on the board, tiptoed to Pet Corner, and peered at the fish.
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| show | He had his eyes closed and imaging what the ordeal must have been like for the fish. Pg. 1
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| show | What a crime solver needs is a theory about why someone would commit the crime. I've got one. Do you? Pg. 5
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| show | A POEM IS A GIFT. Pg. 14
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| show | I didn't get anything done in this stupid class. No good observations. No poem. I am a failure. I am giving up. Pg. 18
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| show | "I have an interview to do," Patrick said. Pg. 24
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| show | "Does the principal know that you are careless about locking up and that you are drinking coffee on the job, ma'am?" pg. 26
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| show | For a cup of coffee, Ms. Herschel will risk the life of a helpless fish. Pg. 26
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| show | But remember, just because you find a shoe print near a crime scene, doesn't mean that the shoe print belongs to the criminal. Pg. 41
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| show | Ms. Barrett has a secret side. Does every teacher? Pg. 55
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| show | A true friend swims close to you never leaving you all alone in the dirty water of life. Pg. 58
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| show | It's funny how the outside of a person doesn't always match the inside. Pg. 63
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| show | I wonder how many people, at this very moment in time, are sad? Pg. 64
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| show | "Another crime has been committed!" pg. 66
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| show | An iris was stolen! I wasn't expecting this. Why an iris? Think… think… think… pg. 67
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| show | I guess I'm just wearing a mask, too. Pg. 71
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| show | "Boom! Boom! Boom!" Mr. Crew said to the beat. Pg. 77
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| show | Stopping by Your Cubby on a Gray Day pg. 78
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| show | If my mom would let me get a dog, I'd probably write a lot of great poems. Pg. 80
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| show | Mr. Browning is in love with Ms. Barrett. Pg. 87
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| show | We know you're not the thief. We know you're not the robber. You're just like us, a normal kid, who likes to spit and slobber. Pg. 90
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| show | Maybe the reason people have pets is because it feels good to take care of something even if you know it might die someday. Pg. 96
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| show | I'm the Thief! Who are You? Pg. 98
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| show | I could get a lot more done in school if there wasn't so much school work to do. Pg. 100
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| show | "Eyeballs never lie." pg. 105
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| show | "Do you see Slurpy? Or Ms. Herschel's iris? Or her fan?" pg. 110
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| show | We didn't find any of the stolen objects, but I'll never forget the afternoon. The whispering! The sneaking! The hiding in dark closets! Pg. 111
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| show | "People write poems on gravestones," he said. "What about that? I have the perfect rock." pg. 113
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| show | "Patrick and his dad set up a trap." pg. 117
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| show | "The moment of truth has come." Patrick whispered. Pg. 118
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| show | His birthday is tomorrow. I bought his favorite tea, which he ran out of on Friday, and had it all wrapped and ready right here. Pg. 119
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| show | The video showed the door knob turning and the door opening. An arm reached inside the door and turned off the light switch. Pg. 120
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| show | From that day on, they read poems old and new. The thief was glad. His name was… Mr. … pg. 125
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| show | "I believe you wore these gloves to prevent your fingerprints from being left at the scene of the crimes." pg. 129
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| show | It's going to feel funny not to have a mystery to solve. Pg. 131
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| show | He looked at his parents' goofy smiles and imagined how much joy they must bring to sick kids every day, and his heart danced with love and pride. Pg. 133
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| show | If every person saw every other person's sadness, then there couldn't ever be such a thing as a complete enemy because how can you hate somebody who you feel sorry for? Pg. 135
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| show | Silence is the water that helps your imagination to grow. Pg. 138
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| show | One of the characters in this book has a name that was created by using the first letter of these writers' names: Carl Sandburg, Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson and William Carlos Williams. Pg. 140
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| show | The author uses the same names for her fictional characters as the names of real poets who were in love. Pg. 140
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| show | A girl who begins her life on a doorstep, without a note or clue of any kind, has a choice.
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| show | It was a creature of some sort, and it pulled its enormous, blubbery body onto the sand with a pair of front flippers.
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| show | Slime shot out the end of the dangly nose and landed in Isabelle's short hair.
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| show | For most of the tenants, each day yielded the exact same events so the days blended together.
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| show | "She said it fell from the sky. Said a black bird dropped it on her head."
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| show | "Don't think fer one minute that just because I'm in the parlor ya numb-headed fools can steal from me."
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| show | It seemed the only climbing she could manage was the ladder to her observation chair.
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| show | "All I know is that it don't take much brains to know a bad apple is a bad apple."
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| show | His glossy black trench coat crunched as he walked up and down the line, twirling his driving gloves as if he didn't have a care in the world.
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| show | Silver beads dangled from the umbrella's edges, tinkling magically.
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| show | "My clients, people of the highest caliber and breeding who live far away from this revolting place, want umbrellas to match their shoes and umbrellas to match their travelling cases."
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| show | Her tears soon cleared but the seed continued to drive her mad.
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| show | "And what about them plants? What do ya think likes to live on plants? Slugs and bugs, that's what."
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| show | "This stuff is mine 'cause it's in my house. It don't belong to you 'cause she weren't yer real, blood-born granny."
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| show | "I bought the three apples and Rolo, Eve, and Neptune helped me deliver them to the three kids."
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| show | Only someone with a pure heart can eat a Love Apple.
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| show | Now was the time to find out if what she had always believed was true- that she had not been left on that doorstep because she was an unwanted piece of garbage.
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| show | As soon as he reached deep water, his flabby, rotund body moved as gracefully as a bird in flight.
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| show | The rain's melody, sometimes delicate, sometimes thunderous, had serenaded her for as long as she could remember.
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| show | "Yer an ugly little thing, with that stuff growing in yer hair and those scrawny arms and legs."
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| show | "Anyway, you're just jealous because I'm a tender and you're not!"
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| show | "A yellow-bellied marmot. You gotta watch out for them."
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| show | The marmots ran along the trunk, then lay on their bellies and hung their heads over a branch.
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| show | "YOUR NOSE IS LOOKING EXTREMELY LOVELY…I MEAN, EXTREMELY BULBOUS THIS MORNING!"
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| show | The shirt stretched as the marmot turned itself around and popped its head back out through the neck hole.
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| show | Their gray shapes darted beneath and above the water line, somersaulting and rolling as gracefully as waves.
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| show | The Northern Shore stretched out before them- speckled beach, clay banks, and fir trees as far as the eye could see.
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| show | "Magic's when you close your eyes, make a wish, and it comes true."
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| show | Her head filled with music as a song begged to be born.
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| show | The oxen seemed to know where to go without his help, plodding along the steep trail at an even pace.
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| show | "I used Vice Vines, aptly named for their vice-like grip."
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| show | Emptiness lay before her as time hung between the moon's departure and the sun's arrival.
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| show | An "ooh" and an "ahh" slid from her lips, for no words could express her amazement.
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| show | So this was what it felt like to be warm all over- like an enormous hug.
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| show | The skin that had always been as puckered as a dried-up slug and as pale as moonlight, looked smooth and slightly pink.
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| show | After all, a grandfather and a great-uncle were more relatives than she had ever had in her entire life.
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| show | Fruit in all shapes and sizes crowded the branches of the orchard trees.
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| show | While she had long conversations with barnacles, potato bugs, and slugs, she had never before spoken to a tree.
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| show | "No tender has had hair that color since the very first tender."
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| show | "It's a magical barrier that keeps outsiders from wandering onto the farm."
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| show | She peeled off the kelp suit and sighed as warm water cascaded over her new skin.
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| show | Plates sat stacked in the sink and a family of mice ran along a little trail they had made across the dire-covered floor.
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| show | She ran to the other side, a wilder side with a forest and looming mountains, hoping for a trace of checkered coat and white hair.
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| show | THIS WAY TO THE SWAMP THAT MAKES RUDE NOISES.
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| show | A breeze slid beneath her, lifting and carrying her back toward the cottage.
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| show | She drifted toward the tower that loomed behind the cottage, right up to its single dark window.
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| show | "You're not wanted" is a rotten thing to say to a person who has just arrived.
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| show | "My seeds used to be alphabetized, but those squirrels keep moving everything around."
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| show | Thanks to her spell, our farm looks like solid mountain and feels like solid rock to outsiders.
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| show | "The end has come, so go away!"
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| show | "You made the solemn promise not to tell anyone about the farm and not to take anything from the farm."
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| show | "The spell was weakened when she took the magical seeds off the farm."
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| show | "I knew it would be easier for you to leave if you believed that your grandmother had died."
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| show | "It mimics the ocean's movement inside your stomach so your stomach doesn't become confused by the motion outside."
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| show | "Computers have to be plugged in or have batteries, but we just go and get our own fuel."
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| show | "If you do not object to what I just said, I won't speak to you for hours, if not days."
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| show | "That's three times this week, and it's only Wednesday."
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| show | No way those ducks poisonous.
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| show | A lot of people had more than one. Our next door neighbors has two. The family down the street have three.
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| show | His list is endless: They whine, they gnaw, they scratch, they bark, they beg…
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| show | It was a store bought tree house, made of giant, fat, interlocking, colorful plastic piece since Dad's didn't want to mess with the noise and mess.
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| show | Here's why you should never keep a rodent in your backpack at school all day.
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| show | Did he somehow understand better than other people that nobody was what they showed on the outside, that everybody had good stuff on the inside, but a lot of it got all twisted up on the way out because people are always trying to be cool.
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| Guinea Dog | show 🗑
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| show | I could pretend to be happy with an iguana that played tug a war or a parrot that slept at the foot of my bed or a goldfish that caught frisbees. But that wasn't me.
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| show | A big, fat orange rat with spiky white mohawk and creepy toes.
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| show | We played Crocs in the Nile.
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| Guinea Dog | show 🗑
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| show | If I made the laws, my mom would have been arrested.
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| show | The coldness felt good on my ankle, thought the pain was still intense.
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| show | I trained her to take discs in and out.
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| Guinea Dog | show 🗑
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| Guinea Dog | show 🗑
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| show | It's my old gameboy. My mom says I should give it to you.
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| Guinea Dog | show 🗑
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| Guinea Dog | show 🗑
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| Guinea Dog | show 🗑
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| Guinea Dog | show 🗑
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| Guinea Dog | show 🗑
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| Guinea Dog | show 🗑
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| Guinea Dog | show 🗑
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| Guinea Dog | show 🗑
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| show | No doghouse was complete with out the name painted in an arc over the door, right?
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| show | But the best thing about the roof is that no one knows I’m here. I've been coming out since I was eight and haven't got caught yet.
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| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | show 🗑
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| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | show 🗑
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| show | What else can you call a kid who goes around bragging that he's the bravest, smartest, strongest, fastest person who ever graced the planet?
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| show | We head toward Billy Rattle's house. In the summer, his front lawn is know as "the field."
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| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | show 🗑
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| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | show 🗑
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| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | show 🗑
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| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | show 🗑
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||||
| show | No matter what I do in life, I'll always be the person worthy of only two Barbies, while she is worthy of thirteen.
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| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | show 🗑
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| show | That night, I have an empty feeling in the pit of my stomach, one that no amount of Oreo cookies can make go away.
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| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | show 🗑
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| show | But on the last day of school, Mrs. Webber glared down at me and said that even without my partner in crime, I was still trouble.
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| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | show 🗑
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||||
| show | A group of neighbors on the other side of the yard is getting ready to do the bunny hop.
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|
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| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | show 🗑
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||||
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | show 🗑
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| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | show 🗑
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| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | show 🗑
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||||
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | "Even when someone is far away, they don't stop being your best friend, Beanpole."
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||||
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | show 🗑
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||||
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Muscle Man's expression never changes, even though, in my opinion, his brother has just thrown him to a pack of hungry wolves.
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||||
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Muscle Man is so cheerful that I want to smack him.
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|
||||
| show | We're destroying this kid. He is toast. No, he is worst than that. He is burnt toast.
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|
||||
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | show 🗑
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||||
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | show 🗑
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||||
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | show 🗑
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||||
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | show 🗑
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||||
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | show 🗑
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||||
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | show 🗑
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||||
| show | "Your mother worked real hard to cook this food and even though it's filled with burnt specks and is probably unsanitary, you are being ungrateful by not eating the cheese fondue."
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|
||||
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | show 🗑
|
||||
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | show 🗑
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||||
| show | The second he utters the word friend, an emptiness sinks inside me, causing my body to become so heavy that I bet I gain a hundred pounds.
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|
||||
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | show 🗑
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||||
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Knowing the truth when others fail to see it is hard on a person.
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|
||||
| show | That's because the truth has a way of seeping under your skin and wrapping itself around you, like a coiled-up Slinky.
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|
||||
| show | Coach says I'll be ready for the Olympics in Munich, Germany.
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|
||||
| show | I'll always remember my friends on Ramble Street.
🗑
|
||||
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | show 🗑
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||||
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | show 🗑
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||||
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | show 🗑
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||||
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Kebsie is the kid I like better than all of the other kids put together.
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|
||||
| show | I'll will always be a person worthy of only two Barbies, while she is worthy of thirteen.
🗑
|
||||
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | show 🗑
|
||||
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Dr. Dan, my eye doctor, says he's never seen a human being who could see such a great distance. He said that I should be working as a top secret spy or something.
🗑
|
||||
| show | She was a foster kid, like you. Mrs. Kutchner was her foster grandmother, too.
🗑
|
||||
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | show 🗑
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||||
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | show 🗑
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||||
| show | The initials BF are indented into my cheek.
🗑
|
||||
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | I should know better not to begin conversations when Shirley is watching Jack LaLanne.
🗑
|
||||
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | show 🗑
|
||||
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | show 🗑
|
||||
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | The only time we're allowed on the Grabowsky's lawn is when we are doing quiet activities like talking.
🗑
|
||||
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | show 🗑
|
||||
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | For the record, when we voted about you, I voted to let you play. After all, you were the one who gave me my name.
🗑
|
||||
| show | We want Pizza! We want Pizza! We want Pizzarelli to sing!
🗑
|
||||
| show | Did I tell you about the time I sang on Broadway?
🗑
|
||||
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | LEM stands for Lunar Excursion Module.
🗑
|
||||
| show | Your uncle is the head of the Apollo 11 mission.
🗑
|
||||
| show | He just challenged the entire block to our favorite game.
🗑
|
||||
| show | Even when someone is far away, they don't stop being your best friend, Beanpole.
🗑
|
||||
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Strike one. Strike one. The fun has just begun.
🗑
|
||||
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | show 🗑
|
||||
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | show 🗑
|
||||
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | show 🗑
|
||||
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | show 🗑
|
||||
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | I was so flustered, I scooped up a spoonful of soup and slurped it down.
🗑
|
||||
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | show 🗑
|
||||
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | show 🗑
|
||||
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | show 🗑
|
||||
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | The "T: is for toad, I thought.
🗑
|
||||
| show | "Woodhull Society Saturday"
🗑
|
||||
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | show 🗑
|
||||
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | "Little dudes, you okay?"
🗑
|
||||
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | The police said the woods were "unsafe due to recent discoveries."
🗑
|
||||
| show | "Just because you shoot hoops like a dude, that don't make you tough."
🗑
|
||||
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | show 🗑
|
||||
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Baby Ruth
🗑
|
||||
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ. What if you get caught?
🗑
|
||||
| show | …Life was good, people called it a "boom" or "boom time"
🗑
|
||||
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | How you handle your mistakes is what can determine who you really are."
🗑
|
||||
| show | He was standing where he stood every morning, directing kids north, south, east, and west.
🗑
|
||||
| show | Itsy-Bitsy Wild Banana Bites
🗑
|
||||
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | "Why that conniving little scoundrel."
🗑
|
||||
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | "Pig Pig, what do you think?"
🗑
|
||||
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | "Phil-an-thro-pist"
🗑
|
||||
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | show 🗑
|
||||
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Pinks 257 were in the background playing my song.
🗑
|
||||
| show | Justice for all should really mean: doing the most good for the people who need it most. And finding a way to get everybody involved.
🗑
|
||||
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | show 🗑
|
||||
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | show 🗑
|
||||
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | show 🗑
|
||||
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Revenge is a dish best served cold!
🗑
|
||||
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | I am going to have to bake a lot of itsy Bitsy Wild Banana Bites to make up for being a lousy friend.
🗑
|
||||
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | With a parent's help, peel two medium sized sweet potatoes and boil until soft.
🗑
|
||||
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | You try different ways, you use your best "ingredients," and you always, always, always stick with the people who know you best - your friends and family.
🗑
|
||||
| show | Rosie the Riveter was like a symbol for women during World War II.
🗑
|
||||
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | The election was in FOUR DAYS!
🗑
|
||||
| show | Once her secret is out, no one will vote for her.
🗑
|
||||
| show | My mind was filled with recipes and dollar signs.
🗑
|
||||
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | She found my memory book and saw the letter and the note you'd written under it.
🗑
|
||||
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | show 🗑
|
||||
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | I just want to make Orchard Park Elementary the best school ever.
🗑
|
||||
| show | I'm here with someone I admire very much, Miss Delicious.
🗑
|
||||
| show | I love the combination of graham cracker crust and fresh apple filling baked into a tender moist golden cake.
🗑
|
||||
| show | Jasmine Moon's show played on school TV yesterday.
🗑
|
||||
| show | Thomas Jefferson, our third president and one of the men responsible for the Declaration of Independence.
🗑
|
||||
| show | Not like old friends; more like kids trying to figure out what they have in common. Or if they have anything in common at all.
🗑
|
||||
| show | One week and one day from now the kids at Orchard Park Elementary would cast their votes.
🗑
|
||||
| show | How would everyone react to what I had to say in my recorded biography that would play on school TV later in the week?
🗑
|
||||
| show | Mom and Dad were in there dancing by the light of the opened refrigerator to music that must have been coming from their hearts.
🗑
|
||||
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Lincoln's important "address" took place on the battlefield; mine begins in the kitchen.
🗑
|
||||
| show | Made posters. Practiced speeches. Told everybody.
🗑
|
||||
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | When George Washington was president, the capital was in Philadelphia, not Washington, D.C.
🗑
|
||||
| show | Abba, caba, cccc, ab-ab, abcc, ba-ca (1, 2,3) ca, ca, bbb,…that's almost the end: don't forget the aabbcc!" I'd memorized the answer sheet.
🗑
|
||||
| show | "I am not a crook!" says Nixon (and "I am not a cheat," says Brianna.
🗑
|
||||
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | I was studying my math and trying to ignore Toady Todd.
🗑
|
||||
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Shhh! Do not even say such things, m'lady. Losing is not an option.
🗑
|
||||
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | show 🗑
|
||||
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | show 🗑
|
||||
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | We were still giggling over Becks's transformation into a Sassy Thing.
🗑
|
||||
| show | No need to worry, she won't forget; she is your best bet!
🗑
|
||||
| show | Snow Angel - white chocolate chips, cream cheese frosting…
🗑
|
||||
| show | Success included the right ingredients: staying true to yourself, following a plan that makes sense, and trusting the ones you love.
🗑
|
||||
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | show 🗑
|
||||
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | show 🗑
|
||||
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | By the time she was four, she dismantled her parents' broken toaster and turned it into a working radio.
🗑
|
||||
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | She crafted a working robot out of toothpicks.
🗑
|
||||
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | show 🗑
|
||||
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | show 🗑
|
||||
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | show 🗑
|
||||
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | show 🗑
|
||||
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Advanced Concepts in Modern Calculus was found in her backpack.
🗑
|
||||
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | show 🗑
|
||||
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | If you got three check marks, you had to stay inside for final recess and clean the windows.
🗑
|
||||
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | If they forced her to dance in the recital at the Middlebury Performing Arts Center on Saturday, it would be utterly unfair.
🗑
|
||||
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | The lemur was the exact opposite of a rabbit.
🗑
|
||||
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | She finally had her 100 dollars.
🗑
|
||||
| show | The four of them were squeezed up tight together like a human snowball.
🗑
|
||||
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | show 🗑
|
||||
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | School is not for fun, it's for learning.
🗑
|
||||
| show | Sophie Simon was a genius.
🗑
|
||||
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Aileen and Maxwell Simon worried that their daughter wasn't "well adjusted."
🗑
|
||||
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | She had never been to a birthday party, and she never wanted to go to one either.
🗑
|
||||
| show | "All this time you promised you'd spend your free time reading comic books!"
🗑
|
||||
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | show 🗑
|
||||
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Doozies. Dilemmas. Submarine-sized pickles.
🗑
|
||||
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Daisy Pete had a lot of problems when it came to tripping.
🗑
|
||||
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | During silent reading time she worked on chemistry experiments.
🗑
|
||||
| show | Was it true that powerless people could find a way to change their lives, like Sophie had said?
🗑
|
||||
| show | "I want a calculator," she said. "A pembo Q-60."
🗑
|
||||
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | The second seat on the right was the cleanest one on the whole bus.
🗑
|
||||
| show | For most kids birthdays were happy times.
🗑
|
||||
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Owen would not love an aquarium full of piranhas. He wanted a rabbit.
🗑
|
||||
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | show 🗑
|
||||
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | show 🗑
|
||||
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Julia pulled her camera out of her bike basket and hung it around her neck.
🗑
|
||||
| show | Julia was not a mathlete. She was a journalist.
🗑
|
||||
| show | From underneath the table Julia couldn't see any of the girls heads- just their pink tutus and pink ballet slippers.
🗑
|
||||
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | show 🗑
|
||||
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | "It's not a joke," Daisy said, firmer this time. "We're staging a sit-in."
🗑
|
||||
| show | Owen was wearing green dolphin trunks with a dress shirt and tie.
🗑
|
||||
| show | Sophie waited for her parents to leave, and then she wiped off both her cheeks.
🗑
|
||||
| show | Staring back at her was a ring tailed lemur.
🗑
|
||||
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | show 🗑
|
||||
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | show 🗑
|
||||
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | show 🗑
|
||||
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | show 🗑
|
||||
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | School is not for fun, school is for learning. Name the book.
🗑
|
||||
| show | Her parents wanted her to be a well adjusted child. Name the author.
🗑
|
||||
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | show 🗑
|
||||
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | show 🗑
|
||||
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | She told her parents her dance teacher was meaner than an angry werewolf. Name the author.
🗑
|
||||
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | The Pembo-Q was the latest model.
🗑
|
||||
| show | No reading books fatter than your head, rule #60.
🗑
|
||||
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | He hated dirty bus seats. They were grimy and messy and gross.
🗑
|
||||
| show | No matter what he wanted for his birthday his mother got home the opposite.
🗑
|
||||
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | show 🗑
|
||||
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | show 🗑
|
||||
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | They looked like thirteen tiny terrified tots in tutus.
🗑
|
||||
| show | She knew for a fact her story would make the school paper this time.
🗑
|
||||
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | show 🗑
|
||||
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | HATS, Julia wrote in her notebook. VERY UGLY HATS.
🗑
|
||||
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | show 🗑
|
||||
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | show 🗑
|
||||
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | It wasn't long before someone heard about the old stone house for sale at an astonishingly low price and decided to buy it.
🗑
|
||||
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | There were hundreds, maybe thousands of books, obviously collected by several generations of McMartins.
🗑
|
||||
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | show 🗑
|
||||
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | The house's creaks and groans were almost covered by the thumps of her own heart.
🗑
|
||||
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | The cat's eyes glinted up at her like bits of green cellophane.
🗑
|
||||
| show | If the house was truly trying to get rid of them, it seemed to be taking its time.
🗑
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| show | All the people on Linden Street looked just about as old as their houses.
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| show | "Test your hypothesis. Test your hypothesis. Test your hypothesis. In marching rhythm.
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| show | When it had unrolled completely, Olive saw that it was actually a boy with a large, round face and a very small body hidden in a white nightshirt that was several inches too long.
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| show | The cat guided them across the field toward the row of houses, his giant orange tail twitching like a banner.
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| show | As she watched, one tiny light flickered to life in a distant window, and she knew that Morton was there, waiting.
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| show | As long as she kept the spectacles safe, and as long as she didn't spend too much time in any one painting, she would be alright.
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| show | In fact, it looked less like a cat and more like a small domestic panther.
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| show | What the cat was sitting on was made of wood. It was flat and rectangular, and it had a handle made of an iron loop.
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| show | Perhaps the trapdoor was what the builders in the painting had meant about "something funny."
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| show | "The people in all the other pictures were worried I would get them into trouble. They said there was a man who was watching them."
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| show | "You can't believe everything they tell you." Annabelle pressed her cold palm hard against Olive's hand. "Trust me," she said.
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| show | "Nope. I'm a lighthouse." Morton swung the flashlight in one hand, its glow making a sparkling trail through the mist.
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| show | Wondering if reflections worked the same way the paintings did, Olive put on the spectacles and walked into the vanity mirror. All she got was a bumped nose.
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| show | It was as if every time it reached a level with her nose, the pendant suddenly became a magnet--a magnet that was attracted to Olive. The cat watched, with an I-told-you-so expression on his face.
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| show | He was a bit like your favorite page in a book, one that you go back to and read to yourself over and over again, knowing that it will always be the same.
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| show | This painting was just a place to hold the people Aldous McMartin had captured, like moths in a specimen jar.
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| show | There were no paintings in this bathroom, and Horatio had selected the spot as the safest base of operations.
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| show | The three cats froze in their positions as a clot of shadows slithered swiftly around the edge of the door.
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| show | She was already on the first stair when something knocked the flashlight out of her hand. The attic door slammed shut behind her, leaving her all alone.
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| show | A scream moved up her throat and tried to get out of her mouth, but it ran into her clenched teeth and came out of her nose instead. Olive bolted toward the stairs.
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| show | It was not the ominous quiet that tells you something is sneaking up behind you, but a peaceful quiet--the kind of quiet that makes you ant to curl up and sleep.
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| show | Lights glowed cozily in the distant houses, and a few stars twinkled softly in the twilit sky. "Good night, Morton," Olive whispered.
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| show | Mrs. Nivens lived next door for as long as anyone could remember.
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| show | The three kitty carriers popped open simultaneously.
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| show | They talked to her patiently as if she were a foreign exchange student from a country no one had ever heard of.
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| show | She liked to paint, but she mostly made squiggly designs or imaginary creatures.
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| show | She discovered an old chest of drawers with a pair of spectacles.
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| show | The house made squeaking, moaning sounds when the wind changed.
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| show | Hershel was her old brown teddy bear.
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| show | Something was moving inside the painting.
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| show | She always skipped the eighties when counting to hundred.
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| show | The portrait winked at her.
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| show | A thick solid shadow was coming closer.
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| show | His skin was painted a very pale peachy color.
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| show | "Girls are smarter than boys", he said.
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| show | There's something funny about the basement.
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| show | The two halves of the saucer pulled back together, like magnets.
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| show | Annabelle grew up in the house.
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| show | In this book a girl gave a boy a flashlight to play with.
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| show | In this book a girl and a boy did jumping jacks for a long, long time.
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| show | Mrs. Nivens and Mrs. Dewey were Olive's neighbors.
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| show | They did not redecorate their new house.
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| show | The house's windows were made in all different shapes and sizes.
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| show | If there was an attic, there had to be a staircase to it.
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| show | Something sparkled in the painting with a small, silver lake under a twilit sky.
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| show | If you put the necklace on, you can't take it off.
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| show | The painting was just like one of those sneaky mirrors that's actually a window.
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| show | The attic was Aldous McMartin's studio.
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| show | I said I was a cousin of the Count of Monte Cristo.
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| show | They watched the fragments of glass shatter, then meld and pull themselves back into the window frame.
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| show | Those cats are witches' familiars in animal form, serving evil masters.
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| show | He said, if we agreed to serve him, he would make us live forever.
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| show | Curiosity is the mother of invention.
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| show | I haven't left this room in seventy years.
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| show | She was told to get an old rowboat from the reeds.
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| show | For a delicate-looking woman, she rowed powerfully.
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| show | We need your help - Ms. McMartin is loose!
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| show | Blackpaw's booty! The buried treasure of the pirate king!
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| show | He used the gravestones to build a new house to preserve the power of the family.
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| show | Baltus had been hidden away in the painting.
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| show | She finally died of old age, at a hundred an four years old.
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| show | With his yellow teeth bared, he looked different than the cheerful, tail-wagging mutt she had rescued.
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| show | "Run! If we can get to the picture frame, we can call for help!"
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| show | If they could get the spectacles and get out, then Annabelle would be stuck there for good.
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| show | The swirling clouds were thickening, pulling together into a huge, spinning funnel.
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| show | "I broke them. I break everything."
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| show | They stayed close together and tried to find some candles in the darkness.
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| show | Morton was curled up beneath the mattress in his usual defense position.
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| show | Something knocked the flashlight our of her hand and the attic door slammed shut behind her, leaving her all alone.
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| show | She had never realized how much her fingertips could tell her.
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| show | The sudden brilliance of fluorescent light exploded the darkness.
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| show | The neighbors grew very suspicious
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| show | The old rusty mailbox had an aluminum door that couldn't hold the mail
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| show | Meeting in the library, they found a mistake in the book and wrote to the editors about it.
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| show | She is a very creative girl.
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| show | At the end of the white path……… the moonlight couldn't reach it.
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| show | There were glass medicine bottles , and odd cooking utensils.
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| show | The flitting white shape was moving, before diving into the dark thorny black forest
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| show | There were cobwebs, and old dusty shelves, and crumbling patches with dangling lights from chains.
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| show | With the gauzy curtains, billowing in the breeze, the gigantic orange cat squeezed through the windows.
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| show | They were on a long beaded chain when she balanced them on her nose.
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| show | Test your hypothesis.
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| show | She had to get away from the from that thing that was as thick and solid as a pool of oil.
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| show | Hey! Don't push me!
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| show | The porches, and lawns were empty, there was no light coming from the windows.
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| show | Forty-six lima beans, please
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| show | My coat is simply filthy.
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| show | The chandelier conundrum!
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| show | The old safety pin poked her foot.
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| show | Do you ever have to go to the bathroom?????
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| show | The other house had a striped umbrella with a little white picnic table
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| show | The necklace had swirls and curlicues with a long chain and an egg shaped pendant.
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| show | It was late autumn. There was a cool nip in the air that brushed the long grass around the old brown barn.
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| show | Three hundred and thirteen pieces!
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| show | The Triple Ripple Ice cream with the chocolate chips was in a gigantic crystal bowl.
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| show | They want to get rid of you!
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| show | The people were held captive light moths in a specimen jar.
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| show | Her hand ran over the stones in a long slow arc.
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| show | It's been seventy years since she left the room.
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| show | The weathered old rowboat was covered by the waving reeds in the water.
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| show | You will wear it until you die.
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| show | The wind was getting stronger, the waves pouring over the boat were getting higher.
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| show | "I didn't lose them! She took them"
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| show | The only good thing his son every did was to give him a granddaughter.
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| show | He wanted to create, control and trap life, to make it last forever.
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| show | It looked like the hilt of a dagger sunk deep into the stump.
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| show | His ankles were tied together as he was told to hold out his hand.
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| show | Was it blood or paint that came from the boys palm when the dagger cut into it?
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| show | The wind bent the trees, leaves and twigs whipped through the chilly air.
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| show | The long black tree branch thwacked her on her back so hard she did a backward somersault.
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| show | You were real once!
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| show | We did it! We did it!
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| show | They encircled her feet, staring protectively into the darkness
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| show | "Keep moving---don't close your eyes"
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| show | Giving him encouragement was the best she could do as she brushed a dust bunny from his sleeve.
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| show | The spiders with hundreds of running legs, were on her ankles and calves, all over her.
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| show | God speed, Sir Pillowcase!
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| show | "My love for you is a monotonic increasing function of time."
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| show | I'll just have to get and an anti-allergy injection.
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| show | Stealing was one of his favorite schemes to fill his belly.
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| show | He had a habit of thinking three meals ahead.
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| show | "Gotcha," said the mysterious figure.
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| show | "You're an impressive foe, but the chase ends here."
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| show | There were dozens, no hundreds, of cages, stacked floor to ceiling.
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| show | There were unusual creatures with unusual talents.
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| show | "Kalstaff, I've been expecting you."
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| show | Chameleon crabs specialize in camouflage spells that can make themselves and their loyals blend in with their surroundings.
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| show | Jack saw a six-inch-long green lizard wearing a tiny saddle on its back.
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| show | They passed a caravan of driftfolk, tattooed traveling merchants.
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| show | "Marianne, Dalton, we're back!"
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| show | She was joined by a red-eyed tree frog.
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| show | "Are those fleas? No, they are freckles."
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| show | "We should gather some juniper berries and sage leaves to cast the spell."
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| show | Bridgetower
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| show | Mud lizards
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| show | Queen Loranella
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| show | Gundabeasts
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| show | The queen's magic was important for keeping Vastia safe.
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| show | "My mom and dad were Beyonders, you know."
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| show | Mind reading is telepathy.
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| show | It had three eyes, tough gray skin, thick-hoofed feet, and a horn jutting out of its forehead.
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| show | "Gustavius rescutium!"
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| show | The tiny glass vials contained different spell components.
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| show | Four riders sat atop the phantom stallions, their identities hidden by darkness.
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| show | Loranella
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| show | "Heroism appears in many forms," he said in a whisper.
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| show | "Guide him gently into the Tomorrowlife."
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| show | Tremor hawks were avian predators.
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| show | Clear glass jars were filled with ingredients for a witch's brew: goat tongue, mugword, and goblin toes.
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| show | She wore an anklet of silver and emerald squares.
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| show | Gilbert was terrified of his dad.
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| show | "Vastia sure is…….vast!"
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| show | "Meow," he purred in his most sympathetic face.
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| show | "I didn't lose this piece of ear chasing yarn."
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| show | ….it's just a frog thing.
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| show | When he was disguised as a chicken, he ate a fly.
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| show | He could have sworn that the rock he was sitting on just blinked.
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| show | The piranhadon chomped down on the piece of white taffy.
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| show | The turtle's name was Edan and he was a time stopper.
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| show | The hydra has seven brains and each must be put to sleep for a chance for safe passage.
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| show | After going neck deep in the cool stream, he was covered in winged leeches called vampire leeches.
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| show | THE SLEEPING POWDER!!!!!!
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| show | We like to think of mosquitoes, stinging beetles and poisonous bees less as enemies and more as appetizers.
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| show | "That bounty is mine, beast!"
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| show | Paksahara said she was a hare, not a rabbit.
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| show | The spell was between hiccupping and burping.
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| show | "Think about it, animal and man working together."
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| show | It circled the carrots and bumped into the celery and finally settled beside a parsnip.
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| show | Train tracks ran behind the woods below the house.
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| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | show 🗑
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| show | A thud. The crack of wood. A tumble, tumble, tumble sound.
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| show | "You should let him go," she said.
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| show | The two dogs trotted along behind him, sniffing every tree and pricker bush.
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| show | Rocket was the secret code word they had made up to ditch her.
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| show | They made a list of the tools they would need.
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| show | "Do you hear somebody talking?" . . . "I don't hear a thing."
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| show | Using hinges wasn't a very good idea.
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| show | Anybody who would tear down a perfectly good fort was deserving of a glare.
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| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | show 🗑
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| show | "You're not going out on that rotten ole dock, are you?"
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| show | Something was niggling at him.
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| show | "A hubcap. Shoot!"
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| show | It was big and red and made of metal.
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| show | Jammed between two scraggly oak trees was part of an enormous wooden crate.
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| show | The red thing lay nestled at the bottom of the ravine.
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| show | One end was rounded, like the nose of an airplane.
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| show | There were no wheels, just a flat, box-shaped bottom.
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| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | show 🗑
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| show | "You are going to make sure that it works before you try to move it, right?"
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| show | He hated standing in a circle around the piano singing hymns.
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| show | His throat wasn't quite as yellow as it used to be.
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| show | "Y'all are going to put that submarine in the pond, aren't you?"
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| show | "If she thinks she's in on the plan, she'll keep her yap shut and won't tell on us."
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| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | show 🗑
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| show | She was annoyed that he had stayed gone all day without telling anybody where he was.
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| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | show 🗑
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| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | show 🗑
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| show | "Get your girlfriend to help you!"
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| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | show 🗑
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| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | show 🗑
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| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | show 🗑
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| show | "We need two people pulling and two people moving the pipes from the back to the front."
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| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | show 🗑
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| show | The soft hum of the motor made his stomach flip with excitement.
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| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | show 🗑
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| show | They had all decided that four pipes should be enough.
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| show | She grunted as she scrambled to roll one of water pipes up under it.
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| show | It glided into the water with barely a splash.
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| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | show 🗑
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||||
| show | "The bottom is open to the water, so the internal pressure and external pressure are always equal."
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| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | show 🗑
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| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | show 🗑
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| show | "I hope a water moccasin don't bite you."
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| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | show 🗑
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| show | He was bringing a reporter from the Macon Telegraph to interview them.
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||||
| show | His grandfather lifted a hand off the bed and gave him a shaky thumbs-up.
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| The Fast and the Furriest | show 🗑
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| The Fast and the Furriest | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Remember, we compete only against the course, nothing else.
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||||
| show | The crowd noise faded and the world seemed to slow.
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| The Fast and the Furriest | show 🗑
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||||
| show | A bit rough is when you have to remove you fat dog from his backyard swing twenty times a night because he can't jump through it and won’t stop trying.
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| The Fast and the Furriest | show 🗑
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||||
| show | It's just the single most important event on the agility calendar, that’s all.
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|
||||
| show | I'm glad you're amused by the fact that I've just been assaulted by the family dog.
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| The Fast and the Furriest | show 🗑
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||||
| The Fast and the Furriest | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Anyway, you should take this trophy, put on your jersey-which you still haven't worn-and march back upstairs.
🗑
|
||||
| show | Your dog is clutch, dude. You can't deny it.
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|
||||
| show | There's a collectibles show out in Rosemont. I'm autographing this afternoon.
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|
||||
| show | But to the best of my knowledge, no dog has ever spent thirty-five bucks to wait in my autograph line.
🗑
|
||||
| show | The father stared at this son. The son fidgeted.
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|
||||
| show | You won't stop and you know it-not unless you're able to pay back your investor.
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|
||||
| show | He carried himself differently, his chin raised a little higher, his voice just slightly louder.
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|
||||
| show | He couldn’t actually keep the trophy in plain view, of course, so he hid it under his mattress at the foot of his bed.
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||||
| show | In, particular, he enjoyed the memory of his conversation with the reigning champion of the Purina Challenge.
🗑
|
||||
| show | Have faith and yourself, and your fine dog.
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| The Fast and the Furriest | show 🗑
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||||
| show | He raced through Welles Park, listening to what sounded like angry cats being dragged across the strings of a damaged harp.
🗑
|
||||
| show | He listened to park sounds for a while- birds in trees, kids on swings, cars honking in streets- and glanced down at his dog.
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| The Fast and the Furriest | show 🗑
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||||
| show | The ball will be snapped, then everyone will chase the quarterback, and then we'll just turn around and go.
🗑
|
||||
| show | He ran across the softball field, cutting between the shortstop and the third baseman. Then he interrupted the T-ball game, scampering over the pitcher's mound.
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| The Fast and the Furriest | show 🗑
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| The Fast and the Furriest | show 🗑
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| The Fast and the Furriest | show 🗑
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||||
| show | He was simply digging in as hard as he could, trying to catch up.
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||||
| show | He ran straight for the Bears Tahoe, jumped onto the hood, and scrambled onto the roof.
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||||
| show | Just a few short weeks before, beating any camper in a footrace would have seemed unthinkable.
🗑
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||||
| The Fast and the Furriest | show 🗑
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| The Fast and the Furriest | show 🗑
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| show | They began to walk up the driveway-almost zombie-like, but still in pursuit.
🗑
|
||||
| show | Your son got kicked out of camp on purpose.
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||||
| show | Great seeing you, old camp buddy! Drop by whenever you like.
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| show | Nice little bone trophy, by the way.
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| The Fast and the Furriest | show 🗑
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| The Fast and the Furriest | show 🗑
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| show | He called for an immediate BFR- his term, referring to a "Big Family Round-table."
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||||
| show | He could have cried, but instead he went numb and cold until the BFR that afternoon.
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|
||||
| show | If you didn’t want to play football, why say yes, to camp?
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| The Fast and the Furriest | show 🗑
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| The Fast and the Furriest | show 🗑
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| The Fast and the Furriest | show 🗑
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| The Fast and the Furriest | show 🗑
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| The Fast and the Furriest | show 🗑
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||||
| show | I'm sorry you had to turn to dog shows because you don't feel like we were, you now…interested in whatever else you were doing.
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|
||||
| show | It's agility training. A-G-I-L-I-T-Y. Like the sort of things you need in what you call 'real sports.'
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| The Fast and the Furriest | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Yup Dad. Frilly costumes. And wigs-fabulous wigs. Make-up too.
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||||
| show | You should not have lied to us, period.
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| The Fast and the Furriest | show 🗑
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| The Fast and the Furriest | show 🗑
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| The Fast and the Furriest | show 🗑
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| The Fast and the Furriest | show 🗑
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| show | Dad gets to bask in the reflected light of you winner-ness- and he loves it.
🗑
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||||
| show | I just mean one lousy time-one lousy game they can probably win anyway.
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||||
| show | And when you commit to a thing like that-more importantly, when you commit to a team- you honor the commitment.
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||||
| The Fast and the Furriest | show 🗑
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| The Fast and the Furriest | show 🗑
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||||
| show | I would like to confirm that you have these parents that are often referred to, yet never seen.
🗑
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||||
| show | There were dogs receiving massages from accredited specialists.
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|
||||
| show | There were dogs in bejeweled carrying cases: dogs wearing capes, tiaras, leopard skin outfits, bow ties, tiny mirrored sunglasses, Star Wars costumes…
🗑
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| The Fast and the Furriest | show 🗑
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||||
| The Fast and the Furriest | show 🗑
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||||
| show | They were domesticated from wolves, probably in East Asia, and almost certainly 15,000 years ago.
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||||
| show | They wore nothing but their own fur. No holiday sweaters, no tracksuits, no hats.
🗑
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||||
| show | Don’t even consider the competition. They aren't obstacles. We don’t climb them. We don’t jump them. Don’t let them distract you.
🗑
|
||||
| show | A crowd is a good thing. I've heard athletes discuss this. They feed off the crowd's energy.
🗑
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||||
| show | They moved at inhuman speed and with ruthless efficiency, wasting no steps.
🗑
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||||
| show | Ramp, hurdle, tunnel, hurdle, wall, tube, table, weave, seesaw, hoop… finished.
🗑
|
||||
| show | I was the financier! Of course I have money for the bus.
🗑
|
||||
| show | Did we miss it? We couldn't have missed it! I just called!
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| The Fast and the Furriest | show 🗑
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||||
| The Fast and the Furriest | show 🗑
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||||
| show | I'm completely committed to you. Win or lose. Football or…um…dog.
🗑
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||||
| show | Its not important where you finish. All that matters is what you give.
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| The Fast and the Furriest | show 🗑
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||||
| show | The air smelled like stale popcorn and nacho cheese, with just a hint of dog poop.
🗑
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| The Fast and the Furriest | show 🗑
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| show | As you can see, there's absolute pandemonium here at the United Cen-
🗑
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| show | He leapt onto his dad's wide back, then climbed atop his shoulders and thrust both arms into the air.
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| The Fast and the Furriest | show 🗑
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||||
| show | We'll need to finish that course in 38 seconds next time for sure!
🗑
|
||||
| show | Her eyes were tiny and black, and set so close to each other they practically touched.
🗑
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||||
| show | She picked up her left foot carefully, not sure whether she should back out of my sweltering doghouse.
🗑
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| The Trouble With Chickens | show 🗑
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| The Trouble With Chickens | show 🗑
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| The Trouble With Chickens | show 🗑
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| The Trouble With Chickens | show 🗑
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| The Trouble With Chickens | show 🗑
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| The Trouble With Chickens | show 🗑
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| The Trouble With Chickens | show 🗑
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| The Trouble With Chickens | show 🗑
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| show | The earth will hold on to your smelly secrets for a long, long time.
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| The Trouble With Chickens | show 🗑
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||||
| show | She reminded me of a splinter I'd had once-it bothered me, and I was in a much better mood when it was gone.
🗑
|
||||
| show | Two things were clear: Whoever had left that note had fast feet and a head full of big words.
🗑
|
||||
| show | Sometimes your gut can tell you more than your nose. This was one of those times.
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|
||||
| show | I've never backed down from a staring contest in my life, but her eyes were so tiny and close-set, it was making me cross-eyed.
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||||
| show | Her left foot was bouncing up and down, like she was standing on a hot plate.
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||||
| show | Behoove. Rendezvous. Twilight.
🗑
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||||
| show | They were "inside" words. Words you only learn inside, where there are things like comfortable chairs and fresh lemonade.
🗑
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||||
| The Trouble With Chickens | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | I had a hunch once about a roast beef sandwich I found in an alley in Detroit.
🗑
|
||||
| show | The shades were drawn, but you could clearly make out the silhouette.
🗑
|
||||
| show | He had a long, skinny build, beady eyes, and a giant white funnel around his neck.
🗑
|
||||
| The Trouble With Chickens | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | I should have asked for that cheeseburger up front.
🗑
|
||||
| show | "No medals and no parades here, pretty boy. Just my house, my yard, and my rules."
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|
||||
| The Trouble With Chickens | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | "No. I said the trail leads to the house. Are you listening to me? Do you even have ears?"
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|
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| The Trouble With Chickens | show 🗑
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| The Trouble With Chickens | show 🗑
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| show | I thought about the small town in the Midwest that had held a parade in my honor after I pulled three tornado victims out from under a mountain of debris.
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||||
| The Trouble With Chickens | show 🗑
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||||
| show | The back door was rusty and crooked, with one small window and a floral shade.
🗑
|
||||
| The Trouble With Chickens | show 🗑
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||||
| show | I could make out the dim, gleaming arc of a giant plastic cone.
🗑
|
||||
| The Trouble With Chickens | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | If you don't have the good sense to follow orders, you are about as useful on a search-and-rescue mission as a scoop of vanilla ice cream.
🗑
|
||||
| show | Her mission was to look for any signs of her siblings and then get out.
🗑
|
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| The Trouble With Chickens | show 🗑
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| The Trouble With Chickens | show 🗑
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| The Trouble With Chickens | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | It was the last thing I remembered before everything went black.
🗑
|
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| The Trouble With Chickens | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | I'm going to get rid of all of them and I don't even have to leave the house.
🗑
|
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| The Trouble With Chickens | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | I've pulled people out of all kinds of places-cars, caves, crevices, and sewer pipes. But not once have I come across a lock.
🗑
|
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| The Trouble With Chickens | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | A tell is something people do when they are lying.
🗑
|
||||
| show | "Regular guy is gone for the holiday. His cousin is filling in. Never seen me before, " he answered.
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|
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| show | So that's what that funny black tag on his collar was for. I thought it was the on/off switch for the lamp.
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| show | "Mom, the doggie door is locked. We can't get out."
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| The Trouble With Chickens | show 🗑
|
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| show | The fireworks had begun. They shed just enough light for us to make out our own shadows.
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|
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| show | I knew that they were counting on me, but it suddenly hit me that I was counting on them, too.
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|
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| show | All kinds of things can affect the outcome of a rescue-timing, weather, terrain, fatigue…and sometimes just dumb luck.
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|
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| The Trouble With Chickens | show 🗑
|
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| The Trouble With Chickens | show 🗑
|
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| show | "I was just a worried mom looking for my kids. I did what I had to do."
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| The Trouble With Chickens | show 🗑
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| The Trouble With Chickens | show 🗑
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| show | His real name is Johnathan Joseph Tully. P4
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| show | Probability of detection, POD for short. P14
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| show | His price was a cheeseburger. P6
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| The Trouble with Chickens | show 🗑
|
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| show | Behooves. Rendezvous. Twilight. P27
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| show | Her name was Millicent. I called her Moosh. P5
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| show | Vince the Funnel p36
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| show | "Are you listening to me? Do you even have ears?" p48
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| show | We have to be half strength, half perseverance, and half obedience. P59
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| show | Her mission was to look for any signs of her siblings and then get out. P62
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| show | I call it RHBWR, but it's hard to pronounce. P63
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| show | Sometimes adrenaline is all you need. P68
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| show | The rug carried me like a sled. P71
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|
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| show | Unlike our Hero Dog, I didn't need years of training -- I was born brilliant. P75
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| show | "Poppy and Sweetie, I presume," I snarled. P77
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| show | I've pulled people out of all kinds of places -- cars, caves, crevices, and sewer pipes. P81
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| show | Vince wasn't as dumb as he looked. P84
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| show | "Sure we can. Not very well, but enough to get off a birdbath." p85
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| The Trouble with Chickens | show 🗑
|
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| show | A tell is something people do when they're lying. P89
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|
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| show | "Why in the world would you do that?" "For the books." p90
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| show | She raised her voice so high, I thought she might cough up a vocal cord. P92
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| show | Sugar spilled her guts for real this time. P97
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| The Trouble with Chickens | show 🗑
|
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| show | The fireworks had begun. P103
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| The Trouble with Chickens | show 🗑
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| The Trouble with Chickens | show 🗑
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| The Trouble with Chickens | show 🗑
|
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| show | Chronic ear infection. P111
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|
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| show | I was just a worried mom looking for my kids. P113
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| The Trouble with Chickens | show 🗑
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| The Trouble with Chickens | show 🗑
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| The Trouble with Chickens | show 🗑
|
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| show | She always catches me off guard, that one. P119
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| The Trouble with Chickens | show 🗑
|
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| show | Little Boo and Peep or Dirt and Sugar. P5
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| The Trouble with Chickens | show 🗑
|
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| show | Sometimes your gut can tell you more than your nose. This was one of those times. P23
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|
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| show | It was time for a nap, after all. P19
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|
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| The Trouble with Chickens | show 🗑
|
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| The Trouble with Chickens | show 🗑
|
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| The Trouble with Chickens | show 🗑
|
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| The Trouble with Chickens | show 🗑
|
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| show | She hadn't just inherited her mother's eyes, she'd inherited her mother's crazy. P46
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|
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| The Trouble with Chickens | show 🗑
|
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| show | I could see a long, dark corridor with a polished linoleum floor. P53
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|
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| The Trouble with Chickens | show 🗑
|
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| show | I woke up behind bars. P76
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|
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| show | She winced when I called her by her real name. P79
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|
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| show | I thought it was the on/off switch for the lamp. P96
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|
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| show | If you turned left three times and climbed through the next window, you'd end up in the kitchens. Name the book.
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|
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| show | She felt like she was in a nightmare, and hoped desperately to wake up. Name the book.
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|
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| Tuesdays at the Castle | show 🗑
|
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| Tuesdays at the Castle | show 🗑
|
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| show | There was a kind of hum to the stones, a sense of awareness that hadn't been there before. Name the book.
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|
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| show | He certainly didn't look like an assassin, standing there in his yellow tunic holding those ridiculously small dogs. Name the book.
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|
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| Tuesdays at the Castle | show 🗑
|
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| Tuesdays at the Castle | show 🗑
|
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| show | He looked over the top of the brass spyglass, squinting at the road beyond. Name the book.
🗑
|
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| show | Do you have anything to eat in your room? Name the author.
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|
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| show | Who wrote about a girl making an atlas?
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|
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| show | I think I can see into your rooms from our hiding place. Name the author.
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|
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| show | Tomorrow morning they'll find their clothes ink stained, and more seams splitting. . . Name the author.
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|
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| Tuesdays at the Castle | show 🗑
|
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| show | I'd like to find the biggest pile of manure in the stable yard and shove him into it. Name the author.
🗑
|
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| Tuesdays at the Castle | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | I'm not strong enough to lower you down, but you could lower me. Name the author.
🗑
|
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| show | We're leaving nothing for those rats above to eat. Name the author.
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|
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| Tuesdays at the Castle | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | "Pogue was easily the handsomest young man in Glower Valley." Name the book.
🗑
|
||||
| show | "Let us not mar this sad occasion with talk of revenge." Name the author.
🗑
|
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| Tuesdays at the Castle | show 🗑
|
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| Tuesdays at the Castle | show 🗑
|
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| Tuesdays at the Castle | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Name the book where the Castle can foretell the future.
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|
||||
| show | "You're still the crown prince. That means that the Castle hasn't chosen anyone else to be king." Name the author.
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|
||||
| show | "Rolf is still the crown prince, then Father must still be alive!" Name the author.
🗑
|
||||
| show | "It had draped itself in black, had refrained from making any big changes." Name the book.
🗑
|
||||
| show | "She would hug them tightly, and then present her father with the atlas, and tell him that she had always known they would be all right." Name the author.
🗑
|
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| Tuesdays at the Castle | show 🗑
|
||||
| Tuesdays at the Castle | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | "The Councilors had to stand but it wasn't an insult: they always did. It made them feel tall, Rolf would joke." Name the book.
🗑
|
||||
| show | Name the book in which the main character is given a black cloak that made her invisible.
🗑
|
||||
| show | "Khelsh dipped the pen into the small ink bottle and signed with agitated scrawl." Name the author.
🗑
|
||||
| show | He's young, and naïve: he'll soon realize that he's powerless to object…" Name the author.
🗑
|
||||
| show | Name the book in which the main character's mother had a secret code to stick a handkerchief in her sleeve, so that a bit of it is hanging out.
🗑
|
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| Tuesdays at the Castle | show 🗑
|
||||
| Tuesdays at the Castle | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | "Everyone else would know her brother as Glower the Eightieth." Name the book.
🗑
|
||||
| show | "It warms my heart for my people to receive me so well." Name the book.
🗑
|
||||
| Tuesdays at the Castle | show 🗑
|
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| Tuesdays at the Castle | show 🗑
|
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| Tuesdays at the Castle | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | "Master Parry has just brought the news. They found their tracks leading away from the ambush site…" Name the author.
🗑
|
||||
| show | "She took her atlas…" Name the book.
🗑
|
||||
| show | "Khelsh laughed loudly. 'My best assassins did I send.'"
🗑
|
||||
| show | "…half the soldiers are gone. And that includes Sergeant Avery!" Name the author.
🗑
|
||||
| Tuesdays at the Castle | show 🗑
|
||||
| Tuesdays at the Castle | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Name the book in which the villain is exiled from his own country, Vhervhine.
🗑
|
||||
| Tuesdays at the Castle | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | "Toulala mad water on Khelsh's boot." Name the author.
🗑
|
||||
| Tuesdays at the Castle | show 🗑
|
||||
| Tuesdays at the Castle | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | "It involves manure…a great deal of manure." Name the author.
🗑
|
||||
| show | The chamber pots disappear and the beds are short-sheeted. Name the book.
🗑
|
||||
| Tuesdays at the Castle | show 🗑
|
||||
| Tuesdays at the Castle | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | "The maids were crying. The knife boy was shouting something, and there was even a dog in one corner howling along." Name the book.
🗑
|
||||
| Tuesdays at the Castle | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | "Lilah is trapped in Spyglass Tower." Name the author.
🗑
|
||||
| Tuesdays at the Castle | show 🗑
|
||||
| Tuesdays at the Castle | show 🗑
|
||||
| Tuesdays at the Castle | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Name the author who has a main character use an atlas to navigate a castle that is "alive."
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|
||||
| Tuesdays at the Castle | show 🗑
|
||||
| Tuesdays at the Castle | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | The secret passages had either been made for "Fair Folk" or "magical creatures." Name the book.
🗑
|
||||
| Tuesdays at the Castle | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | The main character in this book must jump into a moat to save herself. Name the book.
🗑
|
||||
| Tuesdays at the Castle | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | "The stones seemed to go soft under you, and you were lying there like an empress in a bed of silk…" Name the book.
🗑
|
||||
| show | As the Emissary leaned over Lord Feen to help him gather up the pieces of his robe, his own robe split under the arms.
🗑
|
||||
| show | You can look out the window and see if another search party gets sent out.
🗑
|
||||
| Tuesdays at the Castle | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Everyone thinks children are sweet as Necco Wafers, but I’ve lived long enough to know the truth: kids are rotten.
🗑
|
||||
| show | A girl my age is holding a baby that’s got a pair of ladies’ bloomers tied on its head to keep the sun out of its eyes.
🗑
|
||||
| Turtle In Paradise | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Archie’s a traveling salesman. He’s sold everything—brushes, gadgets, Bibles, you name it. Right now he’s peddling encyclopedias.
🗑
|
||||
| Turtle In Paradise | show 🗑
|
||||
| Turtle In Paradise | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | I blame Hollywood. Mama’s watched so many pictures that she believes in happy endings.
🗑
|
||||
| show | What is it with folks always talking about where they’re from? You could grow up in a muddy ditch, but if it’s your muddy ditch, then it’s gotta be the swellest muddy ditch ever.
🗑
|
||||
| Turtle In Paradise | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | “At least I’m not named after something that gives you gas,” I say.
🗑
|
||||
| Turtle In Paradise | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | “you been using that hair tonic on your arms, ’cause it’s sure coming in thick there!”
🗑
|
||||
| show | “Here,” Beans says with a mean smile, picking up my suitcase. “Let me help you with your bag, Tortoise.”
🗑
|
||||
| Turtle In Paradise | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | “What happened to him?” “Some boys lit her tail on fire,” I say.
🗑
|
||||
| show | “You a relation or a thief?” he asks.
🗑
|
||||
| Turtle In Paradise | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | And that’s how I find myself sitting on the front porch with Beans, Kermit, Buddy, Smokey, and Termite.
🗑
|
||||
| Turtle In Paradise | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | “You’ve got a club called the Diaper Gang?” I say. “What do you do? Change diapers?”
🗑
|
||||
| Turtle In Paradise | show 🗑
|
||||
| Turtle In Paradise | show 🗑
|
||||
| Turtle In Paradise | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | The baby’s crying his head off like he’s being tortured.
🗑
|
||||
| show | I don’t like babies. They’re like Shirley Temple: everyone thinks they’re cute, but the fact is they’re annoying. All they do is cry and make messy diapers.
🗑
|
||||
| Turtle In Paradise | show 🗑
|
||||
| Turtle In Paradise | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | The biggest turtle imaginable breaks the surface of the water like a lazy cow.
🗑
|
||||
| Turtle In Paradise | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | It’s so hot I wouldn’t be surprised if the hens were laying hard-boiled eggs.
🗑
|
||||
| Turtle In Paradise | show 🗑
|
||||
| Turtle In Paradise | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Before he can grab a fresh diaper, a stream of liquid hits him right in the face.
🗑
|
||||
| show | “Rule number three,” Pork Chop says, wagging his finger at Too Bad. “Always duck.”
🗑
|
||||
| show | Out on Francis Street, a throng of kids jostles around a man selling ice cream from the back of a horse-drawn wagon.
🗑
|
||||
| show | “The nickel was in the bottom of the can, mister.”
🗑
|
||||
| show | Kids lie. We have to or we’d never get anything.
🗑
|
||||
| show | “You want to play marbles now?”
🗑
|
||||
| Turtle In Paradise | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | For a kid with a bad heart, he sure can run.
🗑
|
||||
| show | Mama left Key West and hasn’t been back since.
🗑
|
||||
| show | “Ker-mit! Ker-mit!”
🗑
|
||||
| show | “Would your heart really give out from running around?” “I don’t know,” he says with a mischievous grin. “Want to find out?”
🗑
|
||||
| show | It seems like everyone on this island has a funny nickname, because the whole time we’re walking, Kermit’s greeting this person and that one: “Hi, Cheap John! Hi, Too-Too Mama! Hey, Kitty Gray! Hiya, Fat Rat, you try the doughnuts today?”
🗑
|
||||
| show | Leche is Cuban coffee with a lot of milk. Everyone seems to drink it down here, even kids. I saw a toddler sucking down a leche a few days ago.
🗑
|
||||
| show | “You know, you’ll never get famous unless you write for the funny pages,” I tell him.
🗑
|
||||
| Turtle In Paradise | show 🗑
|
||||
| Turtle In Paradise | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | “Are we related?” I ask. “Seems like everybody here is someone else’s cousin.”
🗑
|
||||
| show | “I thought you said you could swim like a fish,” Slow Poke chides me. “A dead one,” I say, and cough. “Honey,” Slow Poke says, shaking his head, “dead fish float.”
🗑
|
||||
| Turtle In Paradise | show 🗑
|
||||
| Turtle In Paradise | show 🗑
|
||||
| Turtle In Paradise | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Kermit’s right—Buddy’s more trouble than a baby.
🗑
|
||||
| Turtle In Paradise | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Most old people are cranky. Not that I blame them. How can you be happy when you know you’re gonna be dead soon?
🗑
|
||||
| Turtle In Paradise | show 🗑
|
||||
| Turtle In Paradise | show 🗑
|
||||
| Turtle In Paradise | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | she’s meaner than a scorpion!
🗑
|
||||
| Turtle In Paradise | show 🗑
|
||||
| Turtle In Paradise | show 🗑
|
||||
| Turtle In Paradise | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | “I’m just some cousin from New Jersey,”
🗑
|
||||
| Turtle In Paradise | show 🗑
|
||||
| Turtle In Paradise | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | “They had to stay after school every day for the last month and write I will not steal on the chalkboard two hundred times,”
🗑
|
||||
| show | “Nobody needs fancy face cream. A lady buys it because she wants to feel young or find a husband or feel prettier than her neighbor,” he told me. “All I do is sell her that dream, bottled up nice and tidy in a cream, or maybe a new hat, or some brushes.”
🗑
|
||||
| Turtle In Paradise | show 🗑
|
||||
| Turtle In Paradise | show 🗑
|
||||
| Turtle In Paradise | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | The headline shouts Key West Cursed by Weeping Ghost?
🗑
|
||||
| Turtle In Paradise | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | “Killie the Horse! Killie the Horse!”
🗑
|
||||
| Turtle In Paradise | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | “That was swell!”
🗑
|
||||
| show | My uncle’s face is tan as old shoe leather. He looks hot and tired, and has a pale patch of skin on his chin where a beard must’ve been.
🗑
|
||||
| show | “Gee, I never met a man who could sew,”
🗑
|
||||
| Turtle In Paradise | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | “Where’d you get that name of yours?” “Mama says I’ve got a hard shell.”
🗑
|
||||
| show | I haven’t cried since I was five years old. I don’t think I have much of a choice, to tell the truth. Who else is going to hold things together when Mama falls apart after some man disappears?
🗑
|
||||
| show | “You know, the thing about a turtle is that it looks tough, but it’s got a soft underbelly.”
🗑
|
||||
| show | “Can I please have some of the diaper-rash formula?”
🗑
|
||||
| Turtle In Paradise | show 🗑
|
||||
| Turtle In Paradise | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | She reminds me of a lobster, with her beady eyes peeking out at me from under her red hat.
🗑
|
||||
| Turtle In Paradise | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | “Poor Mama,” I whisper. Chased off by her own mother. No wonder she’s such a wreck.
🗑
|
||||
| Turtle In Paradise | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | “Do we have to watch babies today?”
🗑
|
||||
| Turtle In Paradise | show 🗑
|
||||
| Turtle In Paradise | show 🗑
|
||||
| Turtle In Paradise | show 🗑
|
||||
| Turtle In Paradise | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | If there’s one thing a housekeeper’s kid can do, it’s clean.
🗑
|
||||
| Turtle In Paradise | show 🗑
|
||||
| Turtle In Paradise | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | This being Where Blacke Caesar put His treasure
🗑
|
||||
| show | “It’s a map! To Black Caesar’s treasure!”
🗑
|
||||
| show | “This is the sponger’s key, with the cistern and the shack.”
🗑
|
||||
| show | I been sailing since I was in diapers.”
🗑
|
||||
| Turtle In Paradise | show 🗑
|
||||
| Turtle In Paradise | show 🗑
|
||||
| Turtle In Paradise | show 🗑
|
||||
| Turtle In Paradise | show 🗑
|
||||
| Turtle In Paradise | show 🗑
|
||||
| Turtle In Paradise | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | “My bungy found it!” I say. “My bungy found it!”
🗑
|
||||
| show | “It’s a U.” “Have you ever even been to school?” I ask. “It’s a C.”
🗑
|
||||
| Turtle In Paradise | show 🗑
|
||||
| Turtle In Paradise | show 🗑
|
||||
| Turtle In Paradise | show 🗑
|
||||
| Turtle In Paradise | show 🗑
|
||||
| Turtle In Paradise | show 🗑
|
||||
| Turtle In Paradise | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | “Nobody wears shoes around here.”
🗑
|
||||
| Turtle In Paradise | show 🗑
|
||||
| Turtle In Paradise | show 🗑
|
||||
| Turtle In Paradise | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | “I don’t want to spend all this pirate gold buying a headstone,” I say.
🗑
|
||||
| Turtle In Paradise | show 🗑
|
||||
| Turtle In Paradise | show 🗑
|
||||
| Turtle In Paradise | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | “Your secret diaper-rash formula is cornstarch?” “Nobody would believe us if we told them,” Kermit says.
🗑
|
||||
| show | “What happened next?” the writer fella asks me, smoothing his mustache. I lean forward. “That’s when the rats showed up, Mr. Hemingway.”
🗑
|
||||
| show | “Maybe you can come visit sometime. I bet there’s lots of kids you can be mean to there.”
🗑
|
||||
| Turtle In Paradise | show 🗑
|
||||
| Turtle In Paradise | show 🗑
|
||||
| Turtle In Paradise | show 🗑
|
||||
| Turtle In Paradise | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | “He’s a no-good crook!”
🗑
|
||||
| show | It may not be a Hollywood ending, but then I’m no Shirley Temple.
🗑
|
||||
| Turtle In Paradise | show 🗑
|
||||
| Turtle In Paradise | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | At the height of the Depression, Key West was in economic ruin, with the majority of the population on public relief.
🗑
|
||||
| show | the Labor Day Hurricane struck on September 2, 1935
🗑
|
||||
| show | Searching for pirate loot has always been a popular pastime in the Keys.
🗑
|
||||
| Turtle In Paradise | show 🗑
|
||||
| Turtle In Paradise | show 🗑
|
||||
| Turtle In Paradise | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | The writer Ernest Hemingway was one of Key West’s most famous residents.
🗑
|
||||
| show | The real Kermit suffered rheumatic fever as a child and grew up to become the mayor of Key West in the 1960s.
🗑
|
||||
| Turtle In Paradise | show 🗑
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| show | Finally, the Diaper Gang’s secret diaper-rash formula is a family remedy I have used on my own babies’ bungys. (It also works on mosquito bites.)
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| show | He's sold everything--brushes, gadgets, Bibles, you name it. Right now he's peddling encyclopedias.
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| show | Mama's always falling in love, and the fellas she picks are like dandelions.
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| show | You're like Little Orphan Annie and her dog.
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| show | They're never nice to the housekeeper's daughter.
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| show | It turns out that getting to Key West is nearly as impossible as getting to Peppermint Bay.
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| show | It's so hot and humid it hurts to breathe.
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| show | I guess Hair Today ain't exactly an overnight success.
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| show | They're all Curry's mister. It's Curry Lane.
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| show | Idjit? Your name is Idjit?
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| show | One of the walls is covered with funny pages from newspapers--there's Crazy Kat, Terry and the Pirates, Flash Gordon, and even some of my favorite, Little Orphan Annie.
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| show | You want to play marbles with me?
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| show | Pork Chop and Beans. They just go together.
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| show | No girls allowed.
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| show | Conchs are what folks in Key West call themselves.
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| show | The only thing that is lost in this house is Buddy's pants.
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| show | He's up in Matecumbe working on the highway.
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| show | Those are my dolls!
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| show | Mama's always been a little funny with the truth.
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| show | I worry about her being by herself.
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| show | Duval Street is like a different Key West. It's nicer.
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| show | They're drinking leche out of condensed-milk cans.
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| show | Maybe you should start writing for the funny pages, Papa.
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| show | They don't even need to talk to each other; they're like the sailing version of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers doing a dance number.
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| show | Seems like everybody here is someone else's cousin.
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| show | You're a born Conch.
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| show | Pirates would shackle rivals to this rock and let them drown in the incoming tide.
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| show | She makes us lunch--toasted ham and pickle sandwiches on Cuban bread and something called flan for dessert.
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| show | After we finish swimming, we have a cut-up.
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| show | Too Bad followed us when we went tick-tocking last night.
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| show | Mama's head is so high in the clouds, I'm surprised she doesn't bump into Amelia Earhart!
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| show | It's Killie the Horse!
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| show | My uncle's face is tan as old shoe leather.
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| show | Gee, I never met a man who could sew.
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| show | That was three bowls of turtle soup you had, you know.
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| show | You'd be the Rockefeller of diaper rash.
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| show | I walk into the house with fresh eyes.
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| show | It's milk toast. We eat it all the time.
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| show | She's wearing a royal blue hat with a peacock feather.
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| show | I left my shoes outside on the front porch last night, and rotten kid stole them.
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| show | Get it off me!
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| show | It's some kind of a map.
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| show | We're stealing Johnny Cakes' boat?
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| show | My bungy found it!
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| show | That was a hurricane?
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| show | The Upper Keys got hit hard.
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| show | The gold coins spill out.
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| show | That's when the rats showed up, Mr. Hemingway!
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| show | Too late again.
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| show | She said I wasn't her daughter anymore.
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| show | A Hollywood writer couldn't have imagined a sappier scene.
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| show | He took her treasure and hopped a boat to Cuba.
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| show | I've lived long enough to learn the truth; not all kids are rotten, and there are adults who are sweet as Necco wafers.
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| show | In front of us is a rusty pickup truck with a gang of dirty-looking kids in the back sandwiched between furniture.
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| show | How can someone have opinions on baldness and not know the name of Annie's dog?
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| show | The Bellewood, Model #3304
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| show | Mama thinks me going to Key west is a swell idea.
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| show | It's so hot and humid it hurts to breathe.
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| show | There's a boy who looks my age rocking lazily on a porch swing, his feet resting on a sleeping dog.
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| show | "She got a new job as a housekeeper, and Mrs. Budnick doesn't like children."
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| show | "Beans, did you take my shooter?"
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| show | "For Pete's sake, Buddy, go put on some pants."
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| show | A scary, insectlike creature with a pointy tail scuttles out, waving mean little claws, and I jump back.
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| show | "Are all the kids from New Jersey as dumb as you?"
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| show | Mama told me that Conchs are what folks in Key West call themselves.
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| show | "You can't change diapers, got it?"
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| show | "Look at his bungy, no wonder the kids crying."
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| show | Termite barks and Beans tosses the candy at the dog.
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| show | "The nickel was in the bottom of the can, mister."
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| show | Just hearing her voice made me feel like I was wrapped in a soft blanket.
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| show | Duval Street's like a different Key West.
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| show | They're drinking leche out of condensed-milk cans.
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| show | "I don't mind illegal activities as long as I get paid."
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| show | "She's working as a housekeeper for a mean rich lady who hates kids and won't let her talk on the telephone.
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| show | "Your people are from Green Turtle Key. Mine too."
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| show | He picks up a glass-bottomed bucket and holds it on the water, looking down intently.
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| show | "Spongers leave their sponges here to cure sometimes."
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| show | "That's where pirates used to hide their ships and their loot."
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| show | "You'll still make us bollos when you're rich, won't you , Mrs. Soldano?"
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| show | A tiny, frail-looking old lady is sitting on a rocking chair reading a fashion magazine.
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| show | A cut-up is something these Conch kids do every chance they get.
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| show | "Mrs. Higgs believes the spirit may be the widow of a sailor who died at sea."
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| show | "I see you have already acquired a taste for turtle."
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| show | "Can I please have some of the diaper rash formula?"
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| show | Nana Philly is sitting in the rocking chair in her bedroom reading a new magazine.
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| show | "The scorpion was in the nightgown?"
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| show | Smokey's fallen through the top of the crumbling, termite-eaten piano and she can't get out.
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| show | They bang around the boat, tripping over each other and arguing about which way to go and who gets to be captain.
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| show | We've dug a dozen holes all over the key, and all we've found is a whole lot of nothing.
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| show | I lie on the filthy floor and try to ignore the pests- insect and boy- by telling myself that it's just one night.
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| show | Then a mosquito bites me and I wake up in the pitch-dark shack with Ira's stinky feet in my face and Kermit drooling on my neck.
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| show | "Maybe we could build a raft?"
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| show | The sky grows darker and the wind picks up.
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| show | I feel something long and slimy slide over my ankle and go still.
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| show | Something washes over me and this time it's not water: it's fear.
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| show | "I'd believe an honest man over you," Johnny Cakes says.
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| show | "He heard you talking about digging up treasure on this key."
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| show | "I would've gotten stranded on an island a whole lot sooner if I'd known that would make her come get me!"
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