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Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading dark water rising. Elevenyearold will stanton discovers that he is part of a group of immortals tasked with keeping the world safe from the forces of darkness. Dark water rising multiple choice chapter quizzes teaching. This story is set during the time of the galveston, texas, hurricane in 1900. There could be a dead body on the marshy dense, river bank. Shingles and bricks are deadly missiles flying through the air.
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