Book Report On You Don T Know Me

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Claim Defence In the book You Don’t Know Me by David Klass, there is a teacher who cares about the main protagonist, John.Mr.Steenwilly believes that John is a talented musician. He is constantly pushing John to explore his musical abilities and practice more, Steenwilly also senses that something else is going on with John. In class he realises that John is distant and does not focus on music and talks to his tuba. As he talks with John he tries to pry information from John, and the deeper he digs the more he realises that John reminds him of a younger him. Because of this, he tries to unlock John's musical potential by giving him a chance to shine with a tuba solo in their next song. Mr.Steenwilly is worried about John and the fact that

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