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Brief Summary Of The Book Werner And Marie-Laure
In the begging of the story It introduces the two main character, Werner and Marie-Laure. Werner is introduce as a 18 year old boy at a bee hotel. In Chapter one, he is then reintroduced as an 7 year old orphan who lives in a orphanage with his little sister who is two years younger than him, Jutta. In the beginning of the book Werner and Jutta find a old radio that does not work. Werner ends up working on it eventually getting it to work. He then makes modifications and upgrades to the old radio and eventually becomes the local radio fixer. To all of his clients surprise he is so young to be so good at what he is doing. Toward the end of chapel one Werner and his sister hear about Germany supposedly bombing France. In the beginning of chapter

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