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    Guys Read: Will: A Short Story from Guys Read: Funny Business
    Guys Read: Will: A Short Story from Guys Read: Funny Business
    Guys Read: Will: A Short Story from Guys Read: Funny Business
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    Guys Read: Will: A Short Story from Guys Read: Funny Business

    By Adam Rex and Jon Scieszka

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    Will’s got it rough. He’s practically the only kid in school who hasn’t found out that he’s a wizard or a vampire or the child of a Norse god. But when a supervillain takes over the school and all the kids with powers are gone, it’s up to Will to try and save the day. A short story from the acclaimed collection Guys Read: Funny Business, edited by Jon Scieszka.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateJul 5, 2011
    ISBN9780062111562
    Guys Read: Will: A Short Story from Guys Read: Funny Business
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    Adam Rex

    Adam Rex is the author of many books, including Cold Cereal and Unlucky Charms, the first two books in the Cold Cereal Saga; the New York Times bestselling picture books The Legend of Rock Paper Scissors and Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich; the middle grade novel The True Meaning of Smekday (now a major motion picture from Dreamworks, Home); and the teen novel Fat Vampire. He lives in Arizona with his wife.

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      Guys Read - Adam Rex

      Will

      By Adam Rex

      A Short Story from

      Guys Read: Funny Business

      Volume 1 of the Guys Read Library of Great Reading

      Edited by Jon Scieszka

      With an illustration by Adam Rex

      Contents

      Cover

      Title Page

      Will

      Guys E-Read

      Biographies

      Back Ad

      Copyright

      About the Publisher

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      WILL

      BY ADAM REX

      Between peeling off his nightclothes and pulling on his school uniform Will examined himself from heel to hairline. Standing in front of the long mirror with a second, smaller mirror in his hand, he checked every inch of his body for marks, moles, growth, shrinkage, changes in color…and made ticks and notes on a long list in his notebook.

      If you had read this list you may have found it strange.

      Next he pinched himself, held his finger in the flame of a lit match, counted how many jumping jacks he could do in a minute, and timed how long he could hold his breath. When he heard the sound of his older brother moving down the hall Will leaned out the bedroom door and stared at him, squinchy-eyed, until his brother told him to stop.

      (This was on the list, too, though you might not have recognized just which item until Will checked it off with a flick of his pencil.)

      If you’d been watching through the window you may have thought, at times, that Will was no longer doing anything at all. Just standing there, but

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