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Salz is a boy afflicted with cystic fibrosis -- though in the Middle Ages in Saxony no one can identify it as such. Instead he is an outcast, living with his unfeeling father and superstitious brothers in a hovel outside Hameln. His grandmother has kept Salz alive by having him avoid the mead... read more

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The beat is steady, unlike my own breathing.

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Stranger
Meal
Arabs
Pain
Milk
Burial
Sick
Beer
Stained Glass
Death
Truth
Reason
The Piper
Money
Away
Postscript

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  1. Donna Jo Napoli (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Atheneum
Country: United States
Publication Date: 2003
ISBN: 0689861745
Page Count: 260

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Reading Level: Ages 9-12

Some strong scenes of death and witchcraft

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