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The BFG

Roald Dahl · 1982 CE · Novel · English · Contemporary

Sophie is lifted out of her orphanage window by a giant and carried to a country where his larger neighbors eat children by the bushel. Her captor turns out to be the runt of them, a vegetarian who catches dreams and blows them through bedroom windows. Smallness allied with kindness wins.

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