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No Man's Land

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By Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Publisher Scholastic, Inc. - (Blue Sky Press)
No Man's Land
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The gator floated soundlessly to the surface, with barely a ripple, and its filmy lids transformed into hard, gleaming black eyes.Paps eyes gleamed hard and black as the gators. With his spear, he pierced the gators side where the tough armor turned to soft belly. The gator hissed and slapped its head. Its tail lashed. Its jaw snapped, and it bellowed.Thrasher pulled his knife from its sheath and raised it over his head. But before the knife could fall, another roar sounded from the rushes. Out charged a female gator. The shegator hissed, and interest flickered in Paps eyes, a sort of amusement that now theyd have two gators to reckon with.Thrasher gripped his knife tighter, ready to kill the gator, to hack through its spine, to be a man, but his feet wouldnt move. He stood transfixed, his feet planted as if mired in mud.Then the shegator rammed Pap, pushing him into the water.

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28942 words28,942 words
176 pages176 pages
Lexile 700LLexile 700L
Grade 5 to 8Grade 5 to 8

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9780590383714

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