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A Single Shard
This book that i read was about these three men who was potters. One day the master of the potter store who was named Min went out and had to go find another potter who was good at it.Because Min had a large order to get done for a good person he knew so he got this boy who was 13 years old and he was a really good potter. So the next day the boy came and started done pottery for the large ordered he had coming up so Min started the boy on the potting wheel and started working on the large ordered he had.Some of the main characters who was mostly in the whole book was Min the potter master,Tree-ear was one of the boys and crane man was also a potter in the story. My favorite person had to be Tree-ear because he was cool and

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