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My Parents Give My Bedroom to a Biker
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- Narrated by: Michael Boatman
- Length: 39 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Release date: 10-04-10
- Language: English
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Whispersync for Voice-ready
Regular price: $2.27
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Publisher's Summary
It’s here: Volume One of the official Guys Read Library. Jon Scieszka’s Guys Read initiative was founded on a simple premise: that young guys enjoy reading most when they have reading they can enjoy. And out of this comes a series that aims to give them just that. Ten books, arranged by theme, featuring the best of the best where writing for kids is concerned. Each book is a collection of original short stories, but these aren’t your typical anthologies - each book is edgy, inventive, visual, and one-of-a-kind, featuring a different theme for guys to get excited about.
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Waste of Time
This story starts out as a funny childhood memory, but then becomes a lot of nonsense about alien conspiracies to take over the Earth. Not what I was looking for. I wish this had a better ending.
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