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3	Story of a 12-year-old boy and the adventures he has in his neighborhood, dealing with situations like bullies, girls, and smugglers. Essentially SliceOfLife meets adventure in a suburban setting.
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5	There's basically two elements to the book. The SliceOfLife elements are episodic, and woven inbetween the adventure elements, which follow the protagonists as they investigate a mysterious tunnel and a series of clues, resulting in them getting into trouble with smugglers.
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7	!!This book contains examples of:
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9	* BangingForHelp: Amanda is BoundAndGagged in a crate and banging and "mmmphhing" to get attention, which scares Archie for a bit.
10	* BoundAndGagged: Happens to Amanda inside a crate.
11	* TheBully: There are two who play a role during the first third of the story. One of them has a bizarre obsession with pirates.
12	* FreeRangeChildren: The main characters explore the town, an underground passage, and even ride an inflatable raft across a river.
13	* GirlsHaveCooties: Archie and his two male friends have a very negative view of girls, and don't want them to play tackleball (a variation of football) with them.
14	* GoshDarnItToHeck: The dialog contains exclamations such as "darn!", "good grief!", "darn near!" and "nothing doing!". The time period of the story isn't stated.
15	* InevitableWaterfall: When riding an inflatable raft through a river, one of these shows up.
16	* InformedAttractiveness: The narration refers to three neighbor girls as "three attractive girls" when introduced.
17	* KidDetective: The heroes become that (in the classic "clue solving" sense) when trying to figure out the secret of the tunnel.
18	* KiddieKid: The main characters are all middle school-aged, but act more like first-graders than twelve-year-olds.
19	* LinkedListClueMethodology: Each clue the kids find leads to them searching for the next.
20	* SecretUndergroundPassage: There is one used by smugglers, that the heroes stumble across while exploring the neighborhood.
21	* ShownTheirWork: The author has a great deal of knowledge involving tunnel construction, and it shows. The tunnel and its design are described in great detail.
22	* SliceOfLife: The main theme of the story, crossed with some suburban adventure.
23	* WritersCannotDoMath: The book throws out lots of numbers, measuring the number of minutes that an action was performed, the exact size of something, etc. However, the numbers don't add up. Characters have celebrations that last minutes or even hours, characters stand around and watch people for minutes instead of seconds, and objects are sized very oddly.

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