Compromise Refuser: Rick Yancey As A Role Model

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Compromise Refuser.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. A role model can do many things for many people. Rick Yancey begin with the simplest story for everybody to enjoy it, and now is one of best writer. Four-eyes made that people can identify with the stories that he wrote o just simple enjoy it. Even though he only has fifteen novels, he is a role model for many young people, that only can identify with their books, with factionary characters, his young adult novel was named a “Best Book of the Year” (“About.”), and one of his novels was brought to theatres.
Brain cells utilizer out of fifteen novels, had one that is called “The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp” that was the best book of the year 2005(“About”).

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