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Brenton Cullen on his middle-grade story The Prime Minister Problem
BRENTON CULLEN is a bookseller, children’s literature advocate, and now he's an author with his first book The Prime Minister Problem. Wren feels like nobody sees him, but when he writes a letter to the Prime Minister, he starts something beautiful in his small town.
Read on for a Q&A with Brenton.
ABOUT THE BOOK
What sparked the idea behind The Prime Minister Problem?
One day, a random thought popped into my head: what if a ...
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