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Thank you We sneak in involvement with friends allah shmoop

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meet little bin Little ben is six foot one pretty

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tall for a ninth grader He earned his nickname little

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ben because he's always so hunched over a book that

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he appears much smaller than he actually is Don't get

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us wrong Obviously we love that he's in the literature

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although we do wish he'd pick up a dickens once

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in a while rather than trying to power through the

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entire james patterson move but well so no we're certainly

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not judging him for being a bookworm but like everything

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else in life it's about balance right Little bin has

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a hard time ever pulling his head out of a

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book long enough to realize there are people around him

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Oh hello people He misses out on every conversation and

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bonding experience on bus rides to and from school back

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in elementary school Rather than kicking around a soccer ball

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at recess and getting some exercise he'd sit alone against

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a wall and get through another chapter and when his

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entire class gets to go abroad and take an incredible

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trip to england he's so caught up in the latest

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Novel he's reading that he doesn't even notice when they

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past big ben so sad that seems like a meeting

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that was just destined to happen So little bin gets

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left in the dust all his peers have been socializing

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and forging strong friendships making connections that may well last

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into their adult lives But not little been his closest

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friend is his library card until one day when medium

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sized brian the assistant librarian who is issuing him his

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new library card breaks the ice by mentioning that he

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really digs little ben's taste in books now that's the

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way to get kids talking before long brian and better

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talking laughing it up sharing their favorite moments from their

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favorite books talking about their own story ideas they'd like

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to flesh out one day authors they'd love to meet

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you nadia and wouldn't you know it little been finally

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had a friend sort of After all the only thing

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they had connected on had been books but from there

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it grew They started hanging out together Brian introduced bend

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to the wonderful world of video games Then he introduced

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him to his friends and suddenly ben was having a

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high old time not reading at all he was finding

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the joy in shooting hoops the driveway or going to

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the movies or playing poker Not for money of course

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that would be illegal Little bin still loved his little

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books but well it was a healthier sort of love

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not an obsession He realized that life could be so

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much more fulfilling if you had some like minded folks

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to share it with us If he ever did get

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around to writing a book himself while it sure would

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be nice to have some actual life experiences to draw

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from not to mention someone he'd wanna dedicate it to

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and his first five books sales Yep already in the 00:02:29.073 --> [endTime] bag

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