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Book Report On Invisible By Pete Hauptmann
The book that I decided to read and then read all of is a book called Invisible by Pete Hauptmann, the guy who wrote it. It is 176 pages long, which is shorter than some of the other books on the list, and there are several pictures which also helps, and it is about a loser named Douglas Fancypants Hanson who likes model trains, naked girls, and fires. There are no dragons or things like that, but he does have a really cranky cat named Mr. Whiskers. Doug has an actually cool friend named Andy Morrow who plays soccer and buys him Butterfingers. But there is a mystery because why would a cool guy like Andy want to be friends with a loser like Doug? Personally I wouldn’t have anything to do with Doug because for one thing I suspect he smells weird.
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