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When some bullies at his new school almost kill him by slipping a peanut into his sandwich, friendless nerd Ambrose, forced to be home-schooled by his overprotective mother, coerces his neighbor Cosmo into taking him to the West Side Scrabble Club, where people accept him for who he is.
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3 editions- Paperback · English · 2010Tundra Books · 264 pages · 9780887769900
- Other · English · 2016Andersen Press · 256 pages · 9781783444601
- Other · English · 2008Tundra Books · 248 pages · 9780887768750
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