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In the small town of Willow Creek, eighteen-year-old Karl, a struggling dyslexic boy, is forced to face his dyslexia to try to fulfill his girlfriend Fiorella's request for a letter revealing his secret self. To make things worse, Karl's love for his girlfriend is complicated by the fact that Fiorella is a favorite author of Karl's girlfriend's author. The young boy must prove his worth to the author of the same author's novel. In doing so, he discovers a dangerous truth about the author's past that jeopardizes everything he has built in Fiorella's life and in his own.
First publish date: 2012
Genre: Children's Fiction/Children's Adventure
Authors: Aidan Chambers
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