The Serpent King
by Jeff Zentner
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appears in Young Adult, Teen & Young Adult, and Teen & Young Adult.
Dill has had to wrestle with vipers his whole life_x0097_at home, as the only son of a Pentecostal minister who urges him to handle poisonous rattlesnakes, and at school, where he faces down bullies who target him for his father_x0092_s extreme faith and very public fall from grace.The only antidote to all this venom is his friendship with fellow outcasts Trav...
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appears in Young Adult, Teen & Young Adult, and Teen & Young Adult.
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