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In Walking The Boundaries By Jackie French
in walking the boundaries martin is a city boy who wants to be rich and famous. he comes to teds house with a promise if you walk the boundaries he'll get money and the farm. he starts walking along the gorges and along the hill tops as he was walking he felt weird. what he was feeling is him going back though time meeting multiple people who are also walking the boundaries at different time from 100 years to 1000 years he also meets some very strange people and things. The author, Jackie French keeps the reader entertained as she uses interesting characterisation, dialogue and descriptive language to tell Martin’s journey. paragraph 2 martin is a boy with a dream and a plan his dream is to be rich but he's plan is to go to teds house and

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