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Dead Ends

October 28, 2013 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Book Review: Dead Ends by Erin Jade Lange (reviewed by Cuyler)

Dane Washington is a bully with a code: Don’t hit girls. Don’t hit special kids. And by ‘special kids,’ he means Billy D., a boy with Down Syndrome, who witnesses Dane beat down a guy for bragging about his new car. Dane develops a reputation as a force to be reckoned with in the halls […]

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