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From the bestselling storyteller Orson Scott Card comes a gripping story of terror within a small town. Step Fletcher, his pregnant wife DeAnne, and their three children move to Steuben, North Carolina with high hopes. But Step's new job with a software company turns out to be a snake pit, and... read more

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This is the car they drove from Vigor, Indiana, to Steuben, North Carolina: a silvery-gray Renault 18i deluxe wagon, an '81 model with about forty thousand miles on it, twenty-five thousand of which they had put on it themselves.

Table of Contents edit see section history

Boy
1. Junk Man
2. Maggots
3. Gallowglass
4. Yucky Holes
5. Hacker Snack
6. Inspiration
7. Crickets
8. Shrink
9. June Bugs
10. Independence Day
11. Zap
12. Friends
13. God
14. Christmas Eve
15. New Year

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Orson Scott Card (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: HarperCollins
Country: United States
Publication Date: 1992
ISBN: 0060166932
Page Count: 448

Classification edit see section history

  • Library of Congress: PS3553.A655 L67 1992
  • Dewey: 813.54

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