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Four students, with their own individual stories, develop a special bond and attract the attention of their teacher, a paraplegic, who chooses them to represent their sixth-grade class in the Academic Bowl competition.
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Earnest, spare, contemporary and grave.
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- E. L. Konigsburg
- First published
- 1996
- Pages
- 170
- Publisher
- Scholastic, Atheneum Books for Young Readers, Thorndike Press
- Editions
- 26
- Language
- Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9780689862212
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