https://padlet.com/guyj8/ysji5gzx0iute171 en-us 2020-09-02 15:15:32 UTC 2023-01-24 20:43:33 UTC hello@padlet.com guyj8 https://padlet.com/guyj8/ysji5gzx0iute171/wish/715895472 2020-09-02 18:30:32 UTC https://padlet.com/guyj8/ysji5gzx0iute171/wish/715895472 guyj8 https://padlet.com/guyj8/ysji5gzx0iute171/wish/715901346 2020-09-02 18:32:16 UTC https://padlet.com/guyj8/ysji5gzx0iute171/wish/715901346 guyj8 https://padlet.com/guyj8/ysji5gzx0iute171/wish/715912502 2020-09-02 18:35:27 UTC https://padlet.com/guyj8/ysji5gzx0iute171/wish/715912502 guyj8 https://padlet.com/guyj8/ysji5gzx0iute171/wish/715915170 2020-09-02 18:36:13 UTC https://padlet.com/guyj8/ysji5gzx0iute171/wish/715915170 guyj8 https://padlet.com/guyj8/ysji5gzx0iute171/wish/716046813 2020-09-02 19:18:40 UTC https://padlet.com/guyj8/ysji5gzx0iute171/wish/716046813 guyj8 https://padlet.com/guyj8/ysji5gzx0iute171/wish/716179994 Preview: A train ride home from a school field trip turns sinister when two kids spot a body on the tracks.

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Click to read the story here!]]> 2020-09-02 20:53:06 UTC https://padlet.com/guyj8/ysji5gzx0iute171/wish/716274296 guyj8 https://padlet.com/guyj8/ysji5gzx0iute171/wish/716281152 Click below to read a short bio for James Patterson.]]> 2020-09-02 20:57:13 UTC https://padlet.com/guyj8/ysji5gzx0iute171/wish/716281152 guyj8 https://padlet.com/guyj8/ysji5gzx0iute171/wish/716287018 Preview: Merci Suarez is a business woman in-the-making spending her summer learning her father's painting business. When she has to touch up the paint at her fancy new private school, she learns a lesson about love and sacrifice.

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Click to read the story in verse here!]]> 2020-09-02 21:02:39 UTC https://padlet.com/guyj8/ysji5gzx0iute171/wish/716291183 guyj8 https://padlet.com/guyj8/ysji5gzx0iute171/wish/716294202 Preview: The story Sometimes A Dream Needs A Push, is about a boy named Chris and his life with a pro basketball player as his dad.

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Click here to read or listen to this short story!]]> 2020-09-02 21:09:11 UTC https://padlet.com/guyj8/ysji5gzx0iute171/wish/716302249 guyj8 https://padlet.com/guyj8/ysji5gzx0iute171/wish/716327020 2020-09-02 21:24:18 UTC https://padlet.com/guyj8/ysji5gzx0iute171/wish/716327020 guyj8 https://padlet.com/guyj8/ysji5gzx0iute171/wish/716327201 Preview: Pokey is a very poor speller and the class clown. He only gets along "so-so" with his English teacher. One afternoon in detention he and Ms. Canister have an experience that transforms their relationship.

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to resist exploring the inventions left in Buford's basement by the previous resident, they discover what appears to be a time machine.

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