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  • Cover of The Road to Ever After
    The Road to Ever AfterNovel

    Moira Young · standalone novel · 2016

    About grief and loss and art and artists.

    “Ordered to leave his hometown, young Davy, an orphaned artist, escorts elderly Miss Flint to her childhood home, where she plans to die.”

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    series · 3 books · 2007

    Fantasy and dark fantasy, set in british isles.

    “Neil Gaiman's 2008 novel won both the Newbery and Carnegie Medals, and illustrator P. Craig Russell later adapted it into a two-volume graphic novel.”

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  • Cover of Green Town
    Green TownSeries

    series · 31 books · 1946

    completed

    Set in north america and small town.

    “Written more than four decades apart, the two novels share Bradbury's recurring setting and nostalgic, myth-making tone rather than a single continuous plot.”

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    The Ocean at the End of the LaneNovel

    Neil Gaiman · standalone novel · 2013

    Fantasy and dark fantasy, eerie in tone.

    “A seven year old farm boy becomes friends with an eleven year old neighbor girl, who he discovers is ancient and powerful and intervenes when a nonhuman entity attempts to make a home in earthly reality.”

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  • Cover of Jonathan Livingston Seagull
    Jonathan Livingston SeagullNovel

    Richard Bach · standalone novel · 1970

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  • Cover of Holes
    HolesNovel

    Louis Sachar · standalone novel · 1998

    About family secrets and race and racism.

    “The plot explores the history of the area and how the actions of several characters in the past have affected Stanley's life in the present.”

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