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a book as fun to read aloud as it is to listen to and learn from

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they are in search of new friends--but what they discover is a lot more like enemies

including witchcraft

From a young Elizabeth Tudor facing deadly intrigue at court to a teenage Richard Burton

The Wasp Factory -- Iain Banks, Paperback Cards - Playing / Tarot a book as fun toThe polarizing literary debut by Scottish author Ian Banks, The Wasp Factory is the bizarre, imaginative, disturbing, and darkly comic look into the mind of a child psychopath. Meet Frank Cauldhame. Just sixteen, and unconventional to say the least: Two years after I killed Blyth I murdered my young brother Paul, for quite different and more fundamental reasons than I'd disposed of Blyth, and then a year after that I did for my young cousin Esmerelda,