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The Amazing Life of Birds: The Twenty-Day Puberty Journal of Duane Homer Leech

by Gary Paulsen · 2006

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Zit monster.

Puberty Werewolf.

Potty Boy.

Doo Doo Rules!

I'm Duane. Duane Homer Leech. Don't ask.

I'm 12. And one week. What I want to know is, where is this whole puberty thing going? So far it's just something put on earth to destroy me.

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And I don't have a clue what's coming next.

Genre
humorhumorMore like thisLess of thisliterary fictionliterary fictionMore like thisLess of thiscoming of agecoming of ageMore like thisLess of this
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coming of agecoming of ageMore like thisLess of thisfriendshipfriendshipMore like thisLess of this
Setting
2000s2000sMore like thisLess of this
Audience
young adultchildrensmiddle grade
Length
short · 96 pages

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