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Name: Being Henry David
Author: Cal Armistead

Seventeen-year-old 'Hank' finds himself in Penn Station with a copy of Thoreau's Walden as his only possession and must figure out where he's from and why he ran away.

First publish date: 2013

Genre: Children's Fiction/Children's Adventure

Authors: Cal Armistead

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