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Misery Is a Smell In Your Backpack presents a collection of school day mishaps and emotional challenges in a playful, rhyming format. The book reflects the frustrations, sadness, and messiness that students often face, turning everyday miseries into relatable stories for juvenile readers.
First publish date: 2005
Genre: Children's Fiction/Picture Books
Authors: Harriet Ziefert
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