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Bad things happen, even to good people, and city of the beasts makes that point more than once. Everything you need to know about city of the beasts movie. Alexs sisters will stay with their moms mother, clara, but alex is to go to kate, his dads mother. A common figure in recent childrens fiction has been the freespirited wise girl lyra in philip pullmans his dark materials. Kate is quite capable of pushing me into a river hill filled with piranhas, alex blurted out. Alexs father, john, tells them that his mom has to go to texas, alex and his two sisters are told theyll be sent to stay with their grandmothers.
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