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ducking his temperamental outbursts and struggling to pay the household bills

Growing up gifted and working-class poor in the foothills of the Ozarks

This lighthearted story about loyalty

8-button cardigan placket

they vanished

WILLODEEN 6-34-HD1207A ducking his temperamental outbursts andFrom #1 New York Times bestseller Katherine Applegate, a singular middle grade novel about a girl who risks everything to help a handmade creature who comes to life. The earth is old and we are not, and that is all you must remember . . . Eleven year old Willodeen adores creatures of all kinds, but her favorites are the most unlovable beasts in the land: strange beasts known as ''screechers.'' The villagers of Perchance call them pests, even monsters,