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ISBN 9780385744294 (hc) — ISBN 9780375991592 (lib. bdg. )
Ebook ISBN 9780385384056
Illustrations by Karl Kwasny with illustration assistant Stephanie Pepper
Interior design by Stephanie Moss
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As a boy, Ron Daly survived the bombing of Glasgow. His stories of wartime Britain helped inspire this book. His life inspired everyone who knew him.
Contents
Prologue
Chapter One: The Beasts
Chapter Two: The New Girl
Chapter Three: Disappearing Ink
Chapter Four: The Promise
Chapter Five: The Deadly Dozens
Chapter Six: The Ghost
Chapter Seven: Blah, Blah, Black Sheep
Chapter Eight: The Poison Garden
Chapter Nine: It Can Always Get Worse
Chapter Ten: Night Raider
Chapter Eleven: The Mystery Box
Chapter Twelve: The Limeys
Chapter Thirteen: The Firestarter
Chapter Fourteen: What Happened in Brooklyn
Chapter Fifteen: The Secret Rendezvous
Chapter Sixteen: A Dream with No Monsters
Chapter Seventeen: Dingleberry
Chapter Eighteen: Ick’s Army
Chapter Nineteen: The Witch-Hunt
Chapter Twenty: The Quarterback Killer Killer
Chapter Twenty-one: Storming the Tower
Chapter Twenty-two: The Traitor
Chapter Twenty-three: The Hiss of Reason
Chapter Twenty-four: Bait
Chapter Twenty-five: The Sisters
Chapter Twenty-six: Silas Speaks
Chapter Twenty-seven: The Prophecy
Chapter Twenty-eight: The Reunion
Chapter Twenty-nine: The Scoop
Chapter Thirty: The Dream
Chapter Thirty-one: Back to (Somewhat) Normal
She bent down and peered through the keyhole. On the other side of the door lay a dimly lit hall. She couldn’t reach it, but she knew exactly where it was: on the second floor of a purple mansion in a town called Cypress Creek. Three doors along the hall led to bedrooms, and there were four people asleep inside. She’d been watching them through the keyhole all evening, the two boys and their parents. And she’d been deciding what to do with them when she got to the other side.