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6 has a problem.
Everyone knows that 7 is always after him. Word on the street is that 7 ate 9. If that´s true, 6´s days are numbered. Lucky for him, Private I is on the case. But the facts just don´t add up.
It´s odd.
Will Private I put two and two together and solve the problem . . . or is 6 next in line to be subtracted?

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Tara Lazar (www. taralazar.com) is the author of The Monstore , I Thought This Was a Bear Book , and Little Red Gliding Hood . She is a member of the Rutgers University Council on Children´s Literature. Tara lives in Somerset County, New Jersey, with her husband and two daughters.

Ross MacDonald ( ross-macdonald.com) is the author and illustrator of Bad Baby , Henry´s Hand , Achoo! Bang!: The Noisy Alphabet , and Another Perfect Day . Ross has created illustrations and humor pieces for periodicals such as Vanity Fair , The New York Times , The New Yorker , Newsweek , Time , Spy , and Rolling Stone . He was born and raised in Canada and now lives in Connecticut.

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