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Firefly

By: Philippa Dowding

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Firefly lived in the park across from her mother’s home. It was safer there. But after the bad night happens, and her baseball-bat-wielding mother is taken away, social services sends Firefly to live with her Aunt Gayle. She hardly knows Gayle, but discovers that she owns a costume shop. Yes, Firefly might be suffering from PTSD, but she can get used to taking baths, sleeping on a bed again, and wearing as many costumes as she can to school. But where is “home”? What is “family”? Who is Firefly, for that matter … and which costume is the real one?

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1770865993

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The Lost Gargoyle Series 3-Book Bundle

The Gargoyle in My Yard / The Gargoyle at the Gates / The Gargoyle Overhead

By: Philippa Dowding

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The Lost Gargoyle Series 3-Book Bundle

The Gargoyle in My Yard / The Gargoyle at the Gates / The Gargoyle Overhead

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This special three-book bundle collects all the books in the Lost Gargoyle series! In The Gargoyle in My Yard, Katherine meets an ancient wandering gargoyle named Gargoth. He ends up being adopted by her family, but all is not well since his nemesis, the cruel The Collector, is lurking – he once owned Gargoth and wants him back. The story continues in The Gargoyle Overhead, in which Gargoth is reunited with his oldest friend, Ambergine. Finally, in The Gargoyle at the Gates, we find out that Gargoth and Ambergine are not alone; others of their kind still exist, and The Collector wants them all! Katherine, her new friend Christopher, and the gargoyles must join together to foil his plans. Includes: The Gargoyle in My Yard The Gargoyle Overhead The Gargoyle at the Gates

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Dundurn

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1459728807

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9781459728806

The Gargoyle Overhead

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The Gargoyle Overhead

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Short-listed for the 2012 Silver Birch Express Award What if your best friend was a naughty 400-year-old gargoyle? And what if he just happened to be in terrible danger? It’s not always easy, but thirteen-year-old Katherine Newberry is friends with a gargoyle. His name is Gargoth of Tallus, and he lives in her backyard. Gargoth has lost the only creature on the planet who can help him. Her name is Ambergine, and she’s been his greatest friend for hundreds of years. What Katherine and Gargoth dont know is that Ambergine is searching for him too. But she is not alone. Gargoths greatest enemy is prowling the city, and it’s a race against time to find him first! In this sequel to The Gargoyle in My Yard (2009), The Gargoyle Overhead provides the historical backstory to Gargoths life, and further explores themes of friendship, courage and loneliness.

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1459704975

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9781459704978

The Gargoyle in My Yard

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The Gargoyle in My Yard

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Twelve-year-old Kathryn befriends a gargoyle who constantly gets himself into trouble and puts the blame on Kathryn, so she must find a way to move him out of her backyard.

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1894917820

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9781894917827

The Strange Gift of Gwendolyn Golden

The Night Flyer's Handbook

By: Philippa Dowding

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The Strange Gift of Gwendolyn Golden

The Night Flyer's Handbook

By: Philippa Dowding

Gwendolyn Golden has a bad temper and hates to read. She's a pretty normal teenager until ... one morning she wakes up on the ceiling. Along with her many average teenage qualities, Gwendolyn Golden can also fly. What’s happening to her?

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Dundurn

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1459707362

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9781459707368

Alex and The Other

Weird Stories Gone Wrong

By: Philippa Dowding

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Alex and The Other

Weird Stories Gone Wrong

By: Philippa Dowding

Beware The Other ... Alex is the loneliest boy at school. Not only are his parents away (again), but his beloved cat is missing. Plus, one morning his reflection in the haunted bathroom mirror at school starts talking to him. Then two mysterious strangers in overcoats and sunglasses appear, whispering the same message, over and over: Beware The Other.... But, worse than all that, is the girl with the braid. She looks just like Alex. She’s better than him at everything, and they even share the same name. Soon, she’s the only Alex anyone can see, at school, at work, even at home. In no time, it’s almost as though the real Alex never existed at all. Can the real Alex outsmart his evil twin and get his life back before she replaces him for good? And, more importantly, who is the real Alex, anyway?

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1459740653

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Quinn and the Quiet, Quiet

Weird Stories Gone Wrong

By: Philippa Dowding

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Quinn and the Quiet, Quiet

Weird Stories Gone Wrong

By: Philippa Dowding

Quinn might get used to the food, Work Bots, and creating the Blue BrickTM ... but why are children all around him turning blue? Quinn Fleet, twelve, Packager (QF12P) has only been at the Work Centre for three days, but he’s already seen a Caver run away, faced interrogation, and been made to stand in front of a crowd of children in the Grand Hall to apologize for breaking a Blue BrickTM. That's when he notices that all the children at the Work Centre look so thin, ragged, and blue. Why are the children turning blue? Why can they make the strange blue spark when they snap their fingers? What’s the blue shimmer in the air? And why do a renegade Work Bot and an Officer want Quinn to lead the NewBlues to the sanctuary of the Quiet, Quiet? But more than all that, what is the Quiet, Quiet, anyway?

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Dundurn

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1459743121

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9781459743120

Myles and the Monster Outside

Weird Stories Gone Wrong

By: Philippa Dowding

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Myles and the Monster Outside

Weird Stories Gone Wrong

By: Philippa Dowding

2017 Silver Birch Express Award Honour Book • 2017 Hackmatack Children’s Choice Book Award — Shortlisted • 2017 Diamond Willow Award — Shortlisted The second instalment in a series of scary tall tales from acclaimed children’s novelist Philippa Dowding. I will never leave this car, the back seat reeks of everything my little brother has ever eaten, and that thing is still out there ... Myles and his family have been driving for four days. It’s their final night on the road, but Myles knows they will never arrive at their new house. It will never stop raining. And even if they do get there (which is doubtful), he knows he will never have friends again. He also knows that something is following them in the dark, rainy fields outside their car. Something monstrous. Once the monster arrives, things go very wrong. Myles and his family get lost, their car keeps breaking down, and a strange old man and his dog turn up, again and again. Then things get really weird. Myles is pretty sure it’s all his fault: he’s the only one who can see the monster. He’s the only one who can hear the monster. And hardest of all? He’s the only one who can make it go away.

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1459729455

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Weird Stories Gone Wrong 6-Book Bundle

Carter and the Curious Maze / Myles and the Monster Outside / Jake and the Giant Hand / and 3 others

By: Philippa Dowding

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Carter and the Curious Maze / Myles and the Monster Outside / Jake and the Giant Hand / and 3 others

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They’re troubling. They’re bizarre. And they JUST might be true. They’re Weird Stories Gone Wrong. Here are six spectacularly spooky books from acclaimed children’s author Philippa Dowding that will have you wondering about tall tales, giant flies, and mysterious monsters in the dark. Jake and the Giant Hand—Book #1 Jake doesn’t really believe a giant’s hand was found in a field near his grandfather’s farm, but when Jake begins noticing giant flies buzzing around and Grandpa says the basement is off-limits, he doesn’t know what to believe. Myles and the Monster Outside—Book #2 2016/2017 Hackmatack Children’s Choice Book Award — Shortlisted A series of creepy events follow Myles and his family one rainy night as they move across the country. But the scariest thing has to be the misty, red-eyed figure that won’t leave them alone. Carter and the Curious Maze—Book #3 Carter discovers a creepy maze at the fair and travels farther and farther back in time. How will he ever get back to the present? Alex and The Other—Book #4 Alex is a lonely boy, not exactly bullied but not popular either. Then a girl — named Alex! — arrives who looks just like him. She is popular, and better than him at everything. Soon, she’s even better than he is at being him. Will Alex get his life back, or will his evil twin take over for good? Blackwells and the Briny Deep—Book #5 After seeing a phantom ship, the Blackwell kids run aground on a mysterious island with warring mermaids, zombie pirates, and a strange dolphin-boy named Finn. Quinn and the Quiet, Quiet—Book #6 On Quinn’s third day at the Work Centre he sees a girl run away. After he’s questioned about her escape, suddenly a renegade Officer and Work Bot want Quinn to help the oldest children find sanctuary in the Quiet, Quiet. But why are the children turning blue? How can Quinn help them? And more than that: what’s the Quiet, Quiet anyway?

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1459747240

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Weird Stories Gone Wrong 2-Book Bundle

Jake and the Giant Hand / Myles and the Monster Outside

By: Philippa Dowding

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Jake and the Giant Hand / Myles and the Monster Outside

By: Philippa Dowding

They’re troubling. They’re bizarre. And they JUST might be true. They’re Weird Stories Gone Wrong. Here are two spectacularly spooky stories from acclaimed children’s author Philippa Dowding that will have you wondering about tall tales, giant flies and mysterious monsters in the dark. Includes Jake and the Giant Hand Jake doesn’t really believe a giant’s hand was found in a field near his grandfather’s farm, but when Jake begins noticing giant flies buzzing around and Grandpa says the basement is off-limits, he doesn’t know what to believe. Myles and the Monster Outside A series of creepy events follow Myles and his family one rainy night as they move across the country. But the scariest thing has to be the misty, red-eyed figure that won’t leave them alone. “A well-crafted horror story with a suspenseful buildup and truly creepy details.” —School Library Journal “Philippa Dowding has cooked up a delicious blend of mystery, humour, and adventure that middle-grade readers are sure to devour!” —Richard Scarsbrook (Author of The Monkey-Face Chronicles)

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Dundurn

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1459734300

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9781459734302

Stories from Architecture

Behind the Lines at Drawing Matter

By: Philippa Lewis

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Stories from Architecture

Behind the Lines at Drawing Matter

By: Philippa Lewis

The imagined histories of twenty-five architectural drawings and models, told through reminiscences, stories, conversations, letters, and monologues. Even when an architectural drawing does not show any human figures, we can imagine many different characters just off the page: architects, artists, onlookers, clients, builders, developers, philanthropists—working, observing, admiring, arguing. In Stories from Architecture, Philippa Lewis captures some of these personalities through reminiscences, anecdotes, conversations, letters, and monologues that collectively offer the imagined histories of twenty-five architectural drawings. Some of these untold stories are factual, like Frank Lloyd Wright’s correspondence with a Wisconsin librarian regarding her $5,000 dream home, or letters written by the English architect John Nash to his irascible aristocratic client. Others recount a fictional, if credible, scenario by placing these drawings—and with them their characters—into their immediate social context. For instance, the dilemmas facing a Regency couple who are considering a move to a suburban villa; a request from the office of Richard Neutra for an assistant to measure Josef von Sternberg’s Rolls-Royce so that the director’s beloved vehicle might fit into the garage being designed by his architect; a teenager dreaming of a life away from parental supervision by gazing at a gadget-filled bachelor pad in Playboy magazine; even a policeman recording the ground plans of the house of a murder scene. The drawings, reproduced in color, are all sourced from the Drawing Matter collection in Somerset, UK, and are fascinating objects in themselves; but Lewis shifts our attention beyond the image to other possible histories that linger, invisible, beyond the page, and in the process animates not just a series of archival documents but the writing of architectural history.

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MIT Press

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0262543028

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9780262543026

Weird Stories Gone Wrong 5-Book Bundle

Carter and the Curious Maze / Myles and the Monster Outside / Jake and the Giant Hand / Alex and The Other / Blackwells and the Briny Deep

By: Philippa Dowding

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Weird Stories Gone Wrong 5-Book Bundle

Carter and the Curious Maze / Myles and the Monster Outside / Jake and the Giant Hand / Alex and The Other / Blackwells and the Briny Deep

By: Philippa Dowding

They’re troubling. They’re bizarre. And they JUST might be true. They’re Weird Stories Gone Wrong. Here are five spectacularly spooky books from acclaimed children’s author Philippa Dowding that will have you wondering about tall tales, giant flies, and mysterious monsters in the dark. Jake and the Giant Hand—Book #1 Jake doesn’t really believe a giant’s hand was found in a field near his grandfather’s farm, but when Jake begins noticing giant flies buzzing around and Grandpa says the basement is off-limits, he doesn’t know what to believe. Myles and the Monster Outside—Book #2 2016/2017 Hackmatack Children’s Choice Book Award — Shortlisted A series of creepy events follow Myles and his family one rainy night as they move across the country. But the scariest thing has to be the misty, red-eyed figure that won’t leave them alone. Carter and the Curious Maze—Book #3 Carter discovers a creepy maze at the fair and travels farther and farther back in time. How will he ever get back to the present? Alex and The Other—Book #4 Alex is a lonely boy, not exactly bullied but not popular either. Then a girl — named Alex! — arrives who looks just like him. She is popular, and better than him at everything. Soon, she’s even better than he is at being him. Will Alex get his life back, or will his evil twin take over for good? Blackwells and the Briny Deep—Book #5 After seeing a phantom ship, the Blackwell kids run aground on a mysterious island with warring mermaids, zombie pirates, and a strange dolphin-boy named Finn.

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Dundurn

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1459744403

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The Strange Gift of Gwendolyn Golden

The Night Flyer's Handbook

By: Philippa Dowding

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The Night Flyer's Handbook

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Quinn and the Quiet, Quiet

Weird Stories Gone Wrong

By: Philippa Dowding

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1459743121

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The Gargoyle in My Yard

By: Philippa Dowding

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The Gargoyle in My Yard

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Commended for the 2009 Resource Links Best Books and for the 2010 Best Books for Kids and Teens, short-listed for the 2012 Diamond Willow Award Chosen for the Toronto Public Library's 2015 Great Reads for Kids collection What do you do when a 400-year-old gargoyle moves into your backyard? Especially when no one else but you knows he’s ALIVE? Twelve-year-old Katherine Newberry can tell you all about life with a gargoyle. Hes naughty. He gets people into trouble. He howls at the moon, breaks statues and tramples flowers to bits, all the while making it look like you did it! He likes to throw apple cores and stick his tongue out at people when they aren’t looking. How do you get rid of a gargoyle? Do they help the gargoyle leave for good? If you’re like Katherine and her parents, after getting to know him, you might really want him to stay.

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1459704983

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Blackwells and the Briny Deep

Weird Stories Gone Wrong

By: Philippa Dowding

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Blackwells and the Briny Deep

Weird Stories Gone Wrong

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After seeing a phantom ship, the Blackwell kids run aground on a mysterious island with warring mermaids, zombie pirates, and a strange dolphin-boy named Finn.

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1459741072

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The Gargoyle Overhead

By: Philippa Dowding

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The Gargoyle Overhead

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1459704967

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Jake and the Giant Hand

By: Philippa Dowding

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Jake and the Giant Hand

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Jake doesn’t really believe a giant’s hand was found in a field near his grandfather’s farm, but when Jake begins noticing giant flies buzzing around and Grandpa says the basement is off-limits, he doesn’t know what to believe.

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1459724224

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Oculum

By: Philippa Dowding

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Oculum

By: Philippa Dowding

I'm Mann, just Mann." The world is slowly recovering after environmental collapse, and the children of the automated, domed city of Oculum have begun to awaken. Miranda, William and the 998 other children wake to tend the fruit trees and gardens behind the thick, opaque walls of their world. Some speak quietly of Outside, which is forbidden. Until William finds a door ... The children outside the dome of Oculum — Mann, Cranker and others raised by Grannie — live amongst the rubble of the old destroyed city. They live with hunger, hard work, and stories about a time before the fall, of buggies without horses, light without fire ... and magical fruit called "peaches." But it must be lies, until one day Mann and Cranker get close enough to the ancient dome to find ... a door....

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1770865136

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The Gargoyle at the Gates

By: Philippa Dowding

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The Gargoyle at the Gates

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Christopher is astonished to discover that gargoyles Ambergine and Gargoth are living in the park next door and that Katherine, a girl from his class, knows the gargoyles, as well. When the Collector steals Ambergine, it's up to Christopher and Katherine to get her back, as long as something else doesn't catch them along the way.

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1459703952

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The Night Flyer's Handbook 2-Book Bundle

The Strange Gift of Gwendolyn Golden / Everton Miles Is Stranger Than Me

By: Philippa Dowding

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The Strange Gift of Gwendolyn Golden / Everton Miles Is Stranger Than Me

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The Night Flyers glide effortlessly over the rooftops of their small town in a strange, magical escape from the pressures of high school. Meet Gwendolyn and Everton in this two-book collection of The Night Flyer's Handbook series. The Strange Gift of Gwendolyn Golden Gwendolyn Golden has a bad temper and hates to read. She's a pretty normal teenager until ... one morning she wakes up on the ceiling. Along with her many average teenage qualities, Gwendolyn Golden can also fly. What’s happening to her? Everton Miles Is Stranger Than Me In the sequel to The Strange Gift of Gwendolyn Golden, high school, family therapy, capture by a Rogue spirit, and flying are all part of a normal day for Gwendolyn Golden. She’s the only teenager who can fly in her small town, until the charming and enigmatic Everton Miles shows up with a few surprises of his own.

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Dundurn

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1459738624

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9781459738621

The Lost Gargoyle Series 3-Book Bundle

The Gargoyle in My Yard / The Gargoyle at the Gates / The Gargoyle Overhead

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The Gargoyle in My Yard / The Gargoyle at the Gates / The Gargoyle Overhead

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1459728807

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Alex and The Other

Weird Stories Gone Wrong

By: Philippa Dowding

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Weird Stories Gone Wrong

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Oculum Echo

By: Philippa Dowding

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Oculum Echo

By: Philippa Dowding

The explosions come in the night. Miranda1, Mannfred, Grannie, and the one thousand children of Oculum must flee their farm, chased by the UnRuly. But there is hope: an old friend sends word of a book that may hold the secret to their survival. Just as they begin their journey through the wasteland, Echo1 wakes from an eighty-three-year sleep and is given a mission to find the four domes of the children of Oculum, and to find the First One, whatever the cost.

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1770866663

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