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Tall Story by Candy Gourlay

Tall Story

by Candy Gourlay
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  • Feb 8, 2011, 304 pages
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  • Feb 2012, 304 pages
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Then I finally get why Mum goes on and on about Bernardo being tall.


Rocky, the captain of my basketball team, is TALL.


Michael Jordan is TALL.


But Bernardo is no way tall like Rocky or Michael Jordan.


Bernardo is a GIANT. 

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Excerpted from Tall Story by Candy Gourlay. Copyright © 2011 by Candy Gourlay. Excerpted by permission of David Fickling Books. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

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