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    A Quantity of Yearlings: Tales of Reading Road, #4
    A Quantity of Yearlings: Tales of Reading Road, #4
    A Quantity of Yearlings: Tales of Reading Road, #4
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    A Quantity of Yearlings: Tales of Reading Road, #4

    By Kevan Kenneth Bowkett

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    When a boy named Sorokin sets out to get the attention of a girl named Sultana, he learns that masquerade can be an easy way to get what you want—for a time.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSixth Planet Productions
    Release dateNov 28, 2023
    ISBN9798223689744
    A Quantity of Yearlings: Tales of Reading Road, #4
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    Kevan Kenneth Bowkett

    Kevan Kenneth Bowkett is a Winnipeg writer and researcher. His writing has ranged from an International Convention on the Evaluation of New Technologies to poetry to Elizabethanesque drama in Time’s Fancy: The War of King Henry V and Joan of Arc. He’s also done door-to-door sales, built and slept in an igloo, and run for Parliament. .......... To sign up for Kevan's e-newsletter to keep in touch with his new books, productions, and other projects, please go to http://eepurl.com/g1dX6z

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      A Quantity of Yearlings - Kevan Kenneth Bowkett

      A Quantity of Yearlings

      Tales of Reading Road, Volume 4

      Kevan Kenneth Bowkett

      Published by Sixth Planet Productions, 2023.

      This is a work of fiction. Similarities to real people, places, or events are entirely coincidental.

      A QUANTITY OF YEARLINGS

      First edition. November 28, 2023.

      Copyright © 2023 Kevan Kenneth Bowkett.

      ISBN: 979-8223689744

      Written by Kevan Kenneth Bowkett.

      Also by Kevan Kenneth Bowkett

      Tales of Reading Road

      The Day Between Wednesday and Thursday

      A History of Manufacturing in Winnipeg

      A Taste for Treasure

      A Quantity of Yearlings

      When My Hands Give Out

      Taking Forever

      Yecelentan Tales Short Reads

      The Wizards of Wand Street

      Sweet Acorns

      The Tower of Torn Faces

      The Six Sailmakers of Mumuray

      Standalone

      The City of Sapphires

      Seachild (Volume 1)

      Watch for more at Kevan Kenneth Bowkett’s site.

      Table of Contents

      Title Page

      Copyright Page

      Also By Kevan Kenneth Bowkett

      A Quantity of Yearlings (Tales of Reading Road, #4)

      Also By Kevan Kenneth Bowkett

      About the Author

      Sorokin Petersfield had a problem.

      How could he get the attention of a girl?

      A particular girl.

      Sultana Zia. Whose name he couldn’t think of—let alone hear—without his ten-year-old heart fluttering.

      Of course he and she knew each other, they’d been in the same class at Rosemount School for six years, since 1973—they’d even played at each other’s homes occasionally back in grade one, not long after her family had moved to Winnipeg from Bangladesh. But that was then and this was now, and Sorokin, stirred by early adolescence, was feeling importunities that hadn’t been there before.

      She’s a great runner, he thought. And she swims. I’ll have to impress her by getting an Athletic Award of Excellence this year. Or—what about my stories and pictures? No, she probably won’t care about

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