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The Book of Lost Things

by John Connolly

Middle grade · ages 10–14 · grades 5–9 · 800L · 383 pages · 2007

Why we'd hand it over

A genuinely dark fairy tale about a boy processing his mother's death—haunting and literary, but not manipulative; requires maturity but rewards it.

Where to get it

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