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Breath
Breath
Author: Donna Jo Napoli
Salz is a boy afflicted with a strange disease -- he coughs and coughs and cannot catch his breath. The only way he can stay alive is by doing things that make him an outcast: joining a coven, throwing himself into a handstand when the fits overtake him, avoiding the ale that his brothers and all the townspeople drink. — Salz lives in a time of s...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780689861741
ISBN-10: 0689861745
Pages: 272
Reading Level: Young Adult
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Publisher: Atheneum
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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During the Middle Ages people with afflictions were generally outcasts as is Salz who suffers from cystic fibrosis. Follows the story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin and what really happened to the town of Hamelin


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