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Nov 2023
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Kid News This Week: Wild “super pigs,” a...

LEELA SIVASANKAR PRICKITT, LYNDEE PRICKITT
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Kid News This Week: Wild “super pigs” rampage N America, bears attack in Japan, blue whales return to Indian Ocean and venomous snake loose in N’lands 
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