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Book Review of Let's Go, Philadelphia! The Polk Street Kids on Tour (Polk Street Special, Bk 11)

Let's Go, Philadelphia! The Polk Street Kids on Tour (Polk Street Special, Bk 11)
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Patricia Reilly Giff, a 1998 Newbery Honor winner for Lily's Crossing, takes us on a journey to Philadelphia! Richard "Beast" and the Polk Street kids are off to the City of Brotherly Love. They get to see the Liberty Bell, the Declaration of Independence, and Benjamin Franklin's inventions. Will the day be ruined when they find out that Mrs. Miller, "the Killer," the substitute teacher, is coming along?