Chicken+Boy

=//Chicken Boy// by Frances O'Roark Dowell= Since the death of his mother, Tobin's family life and school life have been in disarray, but after he starts raising chickens with his seventh-grade classmate, Henry, everything starts to fall into place.
 * For more information about the author and where she got her ideas, check out her website. http://www.francesdowell.com/**


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