The Absence of SparrowsStranger Things meets Alfred Hitchcock in this haunting coming of age novel about a plague that brings the world to a halt, and one boy's belief that his town's missing sparrows can save his family. In the small town of Griever's Mill, eleven year old Ben Cameron is expecting to finish off his summer of relaxing and bird watching without a hitch. But everything goes wrong when dark clouds roll in. Old Man Crandall is the first to change human one

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Sal the Cacophony -- outlaw outcast outnumbered -- destroys all that she loves

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to help you understand and better support autistic young people

and his own ability to persevere-to hope-in a world he knows is capable of inflicting unjustifiable and lifelong suffering

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Jack is desperate to pin down just what the Shadow Doctor actually thinks and feels about God

villains and misfits could throw at it (mostly from the inside) to remain one of the most influential forces in the world today

when it suddenly begins fusing with the real world