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The Boy Who Read Aloud

Story Stats

Rating: 4
Grade Level: 5
Page count: 11
Categories: Fantasy, Story Tellers

Author

Joan
Aiken

Appeared in

Not What You Expected

Story Summary

Shunned by his step mother and step sisters, young Seb takes his precious book of stories left him by his real mother and heads for the shore where he reads stories to the sea and the sea in return gives up her secrets to him.