Summary Of Glory Days By Bill Reynolds

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I've been reading a book called Glory Days, By Bill Reynolds, and I think that it will be a good choice for your readers. The Publisher of the book is St. Martin’s Press, and it was published on March, 1998. The genre is auto-biography and narrative, and you can tell by the way the characters speak, and how everything moves on in the story.

The mains character’s name is Bill Reynolds, his traits are optimistic, and he is looking forward to what he has to come. The setting of the story takes place in school and his mind, because you can read the main character’s thoughts and the way the story rolls out shows that the story takes place mostly in his mind. The mood of the story is mostly suspenseful because you never know what's going to happen

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