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Beware the Fish!

by Gordon Korman · 1980

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More hilarious misadventures of Boots and Bruno at Macdonald Hall.

Genre
humorhumorMore like thisLess of thisliterary fictionliterary fictionMore like thisLess of thisadventureadventureMore like thisLess of this
Themes
childhoodchildhoodMore like thisLess of this
Setting
1980s1980sMore like thisLess of thisCanadaCanadaMore like thisLess of thisboarding schoolboarding schoolMore like thisLess of this
Audience
childrensyoung adultmiddle grade
Length
short · 173 pages

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