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Alonzo's 'Halloween': A Brief Summary

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This book is about a ten year old boy named Alonzo King. Alonzo is fascinated by monsters and the show monsters at midnight. No one in his town believes in monsters but him and a teacher named Mr. Blake. His birthday is on Halloween and he wants to be known as the boy of a thousand faces. He paints his face and takes pictures with a Polaroid camera to see how many different faces that he can make. The whole town starts talking about an unknown image known as “the beast”. Alonzo had become the talk of the town because when anyone needed to know anything about the beast they would ask him. He spent all of his time trying to find the beast and what it was. Finally Halloween came around and Mr. Blake revealed to him a huge secret. Mr. Blake

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