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Seventeen against the dealer by cynthia voigt, 9781442428843, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. Seventeen against the dealer authors comments if you notice, this book is dedicated to all the students i got to teach, over many many years. In seventeen against the dealer, dicey thinks that sammy took his knocks standing up and that maybeth endured failures like a patch of marsh grass. Seventeen against the dealer paperback book collections. She was always winding him up about his mum being fat.
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