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Canyons By Gary Paulsen
“Canyons” by Gary Paulsen is a great book that can be enjoyed by all middle school readers.

The story canyons is mostly based in canyons, caves, and a camping ground. Itis also based in highschool sometimes throughout the story.
Brennan and he is fifteen years old and he's a sophomore. Brennan also likes to run a lot to escape his thoughts.
Brennan is a fifteen year old boy. He is now a sophomore. In the story Brennan goes on a camping trip and he decides to go into a nearby canyon. In the canyon he finds a skull and he thought it was so cool, he decided to take it back with him to keep and have for fun. Later in the story weird things start to happen while he has the skull. He doesn't really know what to do about it and he doesn't know

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