Book Report On The Pig Man By Paul Zindl

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The book The Pig Man, by Paul Zindl, is about two teenagers Lorraine Jensen and John
Conlan. They attend Franklin High School, and were pretty good friends. Most of the
Book is about an old guy that they get involved with. He goes by the nickname
Pig man. John is talking about when he first started school at Franklin High
School he hated it. The first year everyone at school called him the bathroom bomber because he set off some kind of homemade bomb in the boys bathroom. He set off 23
Bombs. After that he did not feel like doing it any more. John never got caught. He would take a firecracker and put some clay around it so it would hold a candle and hold
It to the fuse. It would take

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