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Following their meeting in the school bell tower, finch makes it his mission to reengage violet with the world, partially through a school project that sends them to offbeat indiana landmarks and partially through. Robin benway is a bestselling and a national bookaward nominee author, who has penned more than six novels, including, aka book series, emmy, and oliver and audrey, wait. Adoption, family, pregnancy, siblings, social themes, young adult fiction pages. Now, however, the collective itself is rotting from. Former safecracking spy, maggie silver, likes her new life as a regular highschool girl. Benways books have been published in sixteen languages, have won international awards, and have been bestsellers in several countries.
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