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Read the excerpt from "Broken Chain."
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"Ponytails! Those girls who messed with Frostie and me had ponytails. Is she coo
"I think so."
Ernie sat up in bed. "I bet you that's her."
Alfonso felt his stomach knot up. "She's going to be my girlfriend, not yours!"
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"I'm going to get even with her!"
"You better not touch her, Alfonso snarled, throwing a wadded Kleenex at him. "I'll run you over with my bike
Which message does Gary Soto want readers to take away?
A chance at love is important.
Revenge is acceptable.
It can be an unpredictable world,
Family bonds are very strong.
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a woodchuck would chuck as much wood as a woodchuck could chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood.

: ) most likely not the right answer but why not put a good dad joke up in there?

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it means that the hockey puck was traveling very fast.

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.