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COUNTDOWN

The cover of 'Countdown'

What's it like to be stuck in a room all day alone? Hugo is about to find out!

If he wants a gerbil, Hugo must prove to Dad that life in a cage isn't so bad. But can he stand it, or will he crack?

See how he decides in this funny story for young readers.


Hugo picked up the orange ...

This chapter book for newly fluent readers has:




Countdown, a book for younger readers, was first published in 1996. It has been reissued, most recently in the Crabtree Publishing Company's Yellow Bananas series, in April 2006, as both hardback (ISBN: 978-0-7787-0958-9) and paperback (ISBN: 978-0-7787-1004-2).


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