10 Books Found

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"there's a kid and his dad and his dad was in a coma for several years but then he woke up and they do detective stuff together and his dad teaches his kid about detective rules. one thing they found was in a book the letters r a e f were in italics (they found out using a microscope) which triggered a boy who was reading the book's phobia of bugs and the boy had started hallucinating bugs. at one point they were in a sewer. "