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Charlotte's Web By E. B White

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Charlotte’s web was an enjoyable book, it is written by E.B White. Charlotte's Web is an adventurous, funny, and even sad book that will make you have mixed emotions. The book starts off when Wilbur was born and Wilbur was the runt of the bunch, so Mr.Arable wants to kill Wilbur. Mr. Arable’s daughter stops her father from killing him and she asked her dad if she could keep Wilbur as a pet. Then, Wilbur gets too huge to be a house pet so Fern had to sell Wilbur to her uncle Zimmerman. Soon when Wilbur got to Uncle Zimmerman's farm, Wilbur saw a cow pie [poop] and he goes to look and he finds a spider who turns out to be his best friend. The spider's name is Charlotte. After a while of living there and having fun, Uncle Zimmerman decides he

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