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Winner of the Newbery Medal

For fans of Anthony Horowitz

sparkling stars

and it will undoubtedly engross a cross-market audience of adults who dozed through the World War II unit in high school

Normal Rules Don't Apply: Stories Children's Science Fiction Books and her daofei friends faceA dazzling collection of eleven interconnected stories from the bestselling, award winning author of Shrines of Gaiety and Life After Life, with everything that readers love about her novelsthe inventiveness, the verbal felicity, the sharp observations on human nature, and the deeply satisfying emotional wallop. Nothing is quite as it seems in this collection of eleven dazzling stories. We meet a queen who makes a bargain she cannot keep; a secretary