**The long-awaited follow-up to 2011's *Slash & Burn*.** In a small Lao village, a very strange thing has happened. A woman was shot and killed in her bed during a burglary; she was given a funeral and everyone in the village saw her body burned. Then, three days later, she was back in her hous
The Boy Who Wouldn't Swim
โ Scribed by Deb Lucke
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt;Clarion Books
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 1 MB
- Edition
- Uncorrected proof; [Folded and gathered galley]
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
Electric, sherbet-y colors, uniquely comic characters, and a story line filled with high comedy mark this fabulous picture book by new talent Deb Lucke. Eric Dooley just won't swim. If sweating in the hot summer sun while everyone else cools off in the pool isn't bad enough, Eric's younger sister is having the time of her life. When he sees her dog-paddling right across the middle of the pool, under his sunblock he's positively green with envy. Not to mention sweaty. And irritated. But after the babies in the wading pool give him dirty looks for invading their territory, Eric finds a way to conquer his fears. And just like that he goes from being the boy who wouldn't swim . . . to being the boy who won't get out of the pool. Not even in October.
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