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At the start of the book, he is hit unconscious by them and is sent to barton gumbroot, the dentist who plans to buy ludlows teeth. A young boy, named ludlow fitch, is sick of pickpocketing for his poor parents want of gin. The black book of secrets was shortlisted for the bolton childrens book award in 2008. Sep 26, 2018 grief makes people do terrible things sometimes. Anyone looking for the next big thing has come to the right place. We have meticulously scoured the web to track down all of the free book notes, study guides, book summaries, chapter summaries, and analyses available for thousands of books, plays, and poems. I write all these summaries personally, afer reading the whole book, and i always tell it like it is. As ludlow inscribes the secrets in zabbidous black.
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