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Jeanette Ingold's The Window
Kailey Hardy
Ms. Toone
Language Arts 6
November
The Window
The title of this book is The Window and the writer is Jeanette Ingold, she also wrote The Big Burn, Airfield, Hitch, Paper Daughter, Mountin Solo. The person who published this book is Harcourt Brace, he also published this series called Virginia Woolf and more. This book was a bestseller, and the intended audience is young adults or teens. This was in the 3rd person point of view. There are 181 pages of an amazing story to read and learn. How life would have been if you were blind or had a disability.
The author published this book in 1996. Also the genre of the book is realistic fiction.The setting would be the window

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