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Quotes From The Scrawl School

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In the book Scrawl, the school is where most of the action happens. Tod and his friends break into the school to steal a video camera that a student is using to take videos of students and his "friends" get caught trying to steal the camera. Tod has to either go to jail or write in notebook after school for a month. The teacher who is overseeing Tod 's detention is Mrs. Woodrow, and she doesn 't expel him or his friends because Tod reads the sign and it said " No Trespassing Violators Will Be Prosecuted." During this time Luz, a girl from school, asks Tod to ask his mom to make costumes for the school play. Tod never asks his mom and ends up making the costumes himself. When the play is about to presented to the whole school Tod 's

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