jerryspi
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WRINGER...1997. Every year I used to read about a pigeon shoot in a town a hundred miles away. I knew there was a story in there somewhere, and I found it in the boys called "wringers." I started out with a question: What would happen in a town that shoots pigeons if there's a boy who loves them? The story took off from there.
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Jessie
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I remember reading this story so well. It was fairly provocative and i found myself saying "is this real??"
the story was so random, but thats what made it so good.
i read it like five years ago, but still, i remember the feeling it gave me
i did a book report on it which, unfortunately had to include illustrations.
oh dear....
i have always been a verry poor sketch artist and to top it off i had to draw..well... the pigeons and what was happening to them 
my teacher told me it was gruesome and she ripped the book to shreds and told me it didnt belong in her classroom and that she regretted purchasing it. i couldnt believe my eyes.
WORST SOUND IN THE WORLD: book being ripped to shreds
it should be a federal crime
what my teacher didnt understand was that children should read about such hardships to actually understand the world. i read stephen king's "CARRIE" at the age of ten and believe me, was it ever eyeopening, but u dont see me going around dumping blood on people and stabbing my mother (haha, no).
anyways. all i'm saying is that wringer was definately an interesting novel and strangely i appreciated its backwards qualities.
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