Jack London's 'Call Of The Wild'

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I will be telling my favorite thing we have read this year. It was “Call of the Wild”. I will tell why it is my favorite book we've read. I will tell why it is better than any other assignment too. I love the book.

I love the book because it was a short book. It was a magnificent book. It was one of my favorite books to ever read. It was like we were two peas in a pod, me and that book. That book told about history and I relish history. It had an awesome story, too. Jack London is an amazing author, too. I don't like reading long books and the “Call of the Wild” we’ve read was a short version of it. It was a novella. Jack London is one of my favorite authors and he wrote “Call of the Wild”.

Most of the other books we have read were things

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