Author: patrickness

On a cold Sunday evening in early 1957, Sarah Dewhurst waited with her father in the parking lot of the Chevron gas station for the dragon he’d hired to help on the farm… The dragon, Kazimir, has more to him than meets the eye, though. Sarah can’t help but be curious about him, an animal who supposedly doesn’t have a soul but who is seemingly intent on keeping her safe.Because the dragon knows something she doesn’t. He has arrived at the farm with a prophecy on his mind. A prophecy that involves a deadly assassin, a cult of dragon worshippers, two…

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“Unique and clever” (School Library Journal): Supernatural forces are looming — but that’s the Chosen One’s problem. Mikey just wants to graduate! A New York Times bestseller that “pokes fun at far-fetched futuristic fantasies… Memorable, moving, and often hilarious’’ (Booklist starred review).

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A dystopian thriller follows a boy and girl on the run from a town where all thoughts can be heard – and the passage to manhood embodies a horrible secret. Todd Hewitt is the only boy in a town of men. Ever since the settlers were infected with the Noise germ, Todd can hear everything the men think, and they hear everything he thinks. Todd is just a month away from becoming a man, but in the … man, but in the midst of the cacophony, he knows that the town is hiding something from him — something so awful…

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