$29.95 (Paperback book / Harper Collins / ISBN:9780061231537)
The Shadow Year
On New York's Long Island, in the unpredictable decade of the 1960s, a young boy spends much of his free time in the basement of his family's modest home, where he and his brother, Jim, have created Botch Town, a detailed cardboard replica of their community, complete with figurines representing friends and neighbors. Their little sister, Mary, smokes cigarettes, speaks in other voices, inhabits alternate personas . . . and, unbeknownst to her siblings, moves around the inanimate clay residents.
There is a strangeness in the air as disappearances, deaths, spectral sightings, and the arrival of a sinister man in a long white car mark this unforgettable shadow year. But strangest of all is the inescapable fact that all these troubling occurrences directly cor-respond to the changes little Mary has made to the miniature town in their basement.
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$35.00 (Hardcover book / Allen & Unwin )
CBCA Older Readers Book of the Year 2009
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$29.95 (Paperback book / Harper Collins )
On New York's Long Island, in the unpredictable decade of the 1960s, a young boy spends much of his free time in the basement of his family's modest home, where he and his brother, Jim, have created Botch Town, a detaile... More »
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$25.95 (Paperback book / Harper Collins )
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$25.95 (Paperback book / Harper Collins )
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$24.99 (Trade paperback / Tor )
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$27.95 (Hardcover book / Bloomsbury )
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$22.95 (Paperback book / Random House )
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