Once upon a Hermit

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Reads 92
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Parts 2
Time 16m

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Starting high school can be hard. Especially, if you're Jewel Hawthorne, an isolated teen who spent the whole summer in his house. He expects his freshman year to go quietly and smoothly, without any bumps in the road. But what happens if people start to notice him? What will happen when he gets exposed to friendship and is forced to face the battles of self confidence?

Will he learn to abandon his shell or will he continue to be the hermit that he was before?
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