Robinhound CrusoeOakdale is shut down during a blackout, and Joe's big chance to get noticed by the eighth-grade basketball coach will be left in the dark--unless he and Wishbone can somehow high tail it across town to the game in time! Their adventure reminds Wishbone of Daniel Defoe's great tale Robinson Crusoe. Wishbone imagines himself as Crusoe. |
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... rescued . I got out the pen and ink and paper that I had taken from the ship . After putting the pen in my mouth , I soon made a list of what I felt was bad and what was good about my situation : BAD I am shipwrecked on a lonely island ...
... rescued . I got out the pen and ink and paper that I had taken from the ship . After putting the pen in my mouth , I soon made a list of what I felt was bad and what was good about my situation : BAD I am shipwrecked on a lonely island ...
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... rescue , " I told myself . I didn't have much time to worry about my situa- tion . At night , I was so tired that I fell instantly asleep the moment I lay down . As soon as I woke up , I had to start work again . During the second year ...
... rescue , " I told myself . I didn't have much time to worry about my situa- tion . At night , I was so tired that I fell instantly asleep the moment I lay down . As soon as I woke up , I had to start work again . During the second year ...
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... rescue me . One day , I was walking on the beach . I was think- ing how lonely I felt , how I wished more than any- thing to see another human soul . Suddenly I came upon a footprint in the sand . Everything seemed to have stopped cold ...
... rescue me . One day , I was walking on the beach . I was think- ing how lonely I felt , how I wished more than any- thing to see another human soul . Suddenly I came upon a footprint in the sand . Everything seemed to have stopped cold ...
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