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: A quiet, intelligent boy who tells stories and feels invisible to his parents following his older brother’s death.

The boys set off on a 30-mile trek along the railroad tracks. Their journey is marked by challenges that test their friendship and resolve: The Body (Penguin Readers: Level 5 Series)

: After cooling off in a pond, the boys discover they are covered in leeches, a moment of visceral horror that deeply unnerves them. Finding the Body : A quiet, intelligent boy who tells stories

: An eccentric boy with thick glasses and scarred ears from his father’s abuse. Finding the Body : An eccentric boy with

The story begins on a hot Friday during Labor Day weekend. overhears his older brother, Billy, talking about a dead body he saw near the railway tracks. The body is believed to be Ray Brower , a boy from a nearby town who went missing while picking wild fruit. Vern quickly tells his best friends:

, a Level 5 Penguin Reader adapted from the Stephen King novella, follows four twelve-year-old boys in 1960s Castle Rock, Maine, on a life-altering journey to find the body of a missing boy. The Call to Adventure