Excited to Read

A 7-YEAR-OLD’S TAKE ON THE BOOK CONVENTION

Kal’s journey beyond the pages started underground

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At this moment, he was reading the dollar section version of Tom Sawyer. There is a cave adventure, and, as a huge Minecraft fan, he wanted more stories of kids fighting bad guys in dark places. I picked up this copy at Target along with Pinocchio and Jungle Book when I was trying to get his library started in 2010. Kal had just gotten to a part where they are talking about tick bugs, which was funny to us because the parents at his school had been obsessed with ticks during the previous week’s Field Day.

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The escalator at 34th Street Hudson Yards 7 station is 172 feet long, traveling maybe eight stories down.

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