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Books in Laurel-Leaf Science Fiction series

  • The Twisted Window

    Lois Duncan

    Mass Market Paperback (Laurel Leaf, Sept. 1, 1988)
    What does he want with her?Tracy Lloyd can feel handsome Brad Johnson watching her. He's not a student at her school. He doesn't even live in Winfield. But Brad has plans for Tracy...
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  • The Girl Who Owned a City

    O. T. Nelson

    Hardcover (Perfection Learning, Sept. 1, 1977)
    A killing virus has swept the earth, sparing only children through the age of twelve. There is chaos everywhere, even in formely prosperous mid-America. Gangs and fierce armies of children begin to form almost immediately. It would be the same for the children on Grand Avenue but for Lisa, a ten-year-old girl who becomes their leader. Because of Lisa, they have food, even toys, in abundance. And now they can protect themselves from the fierce gangs that roam the neighborhoods. But for how long? Then Lisa conceives the idea of a fortress, a city in which the children could live safely and happily always, and she intends to lead them there.
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  • The Girl Who Owned A City

    O.T. Nelson

    School & Library Binding (Turtleback Books, Sept. 15, 1977)
    FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. When a plague sweeps over the earth killing everyone except children under twelve, 10-year-old Lisa organizes a group to rebuild a new way of life.
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  • The Seance

    Joan Lowery Nixon

    Mass Market Paperback (Laurel Leaf, Aug. 15, 1981)
    Lauren is reluctant to be part of the seance from the start. When the lights are turned off and only a candle flickers, she feels scared. Something is wrong. Something is watching her. And when Sara screams, all the girls are frightened. Even more frightening, when they turn the lights back on, Sara is missing.Then her body is found. Soon, another girl from the group disappears. Will Lauren be next?
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  • The Stalker

    Joan Lowery Nixon

    Mass Market Paperback (Laurel Leaf, Jan. 1, 1987)
    For fans of Gillian Flynn, Caroline Cooney, and R.L. Stine comes The Stalker from four-time Edgar Allen Poe Young Adult Mystery Award winner Joan Lowery Nixon. When Jennifer Lee Wilcox returns home from the beach, she finds that Stella Trax, her best friend’s mother, has just been murdered. The police think Stella’s daughter Bobbie did it. Jennifer sets out to prove Bobbie’s innocence, but as she uncovers clues, she realizes she’s only leading herself to danger! “An exciting, fast-moving thriller.” –VOYA “A dandy suspense tale.” –Publishers Weekly
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  • The Other Side of Dark

    Joan Lowery Nixon

    Mass Market Paperback (Laurel Leaf, July 1, 1987)
    Stacy wakes up in a room that's not hers, in a body she doesn't recognize, to discover she's been in a coma for four years. Her mother is dead--murdered--and Stacy, recovering from a gunshot wound, is the only eyewitness to her mother's murder.She can recall only a shadowy face, so far. But the killer is not about to let her reveal his identity...
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  • The Dark and Deadly Pool

    Joan Lowery Nixon

    Mass Market Paperback (Laurel Leaf, May 1, 1989)
    Liz enjoys her summer pool job at the glamorous Ridley Hotel. Until the night, a dark and lonely night, a ghasty shadow surges up from the pool. A face -- eyes wide, mouth gaping -- stares at Liz. A hand clutches at her sneaker. Then it, whatever it is, is gone.But danger isn't. Strange things are happening at the hotel, and a shaken Liz wants to know why. But whoever is behind the trouble will stop at nothing -- even murder -- to get what he wants...
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  • The Other Side of Dark

    Joan Lowery Nixon

    Hardcover (Perfection Learning, July 1, 1987)
    This novel for teenagers is by the author of over 60 books for young readers and recipient of the Edgar Allan Poe Special Award. It tells the story of a young girl who comes out of a coma after four years and realizes that she alone has seen the face of the man who murdered her mother.
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  • The Island of One

    Eve Bunting, Duane Krych

    Library Binding (The Childs World Inc, Nov. 1, 1992)
    When an asteroid threatens to destroy their space island, the sole survivors of the destruction of Earth must find a new place to go.
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  • The Undersea People

    Eve Bunting, Duane Krych

    Library Binding (The Childs World Inc, June 1, 1992)
    Merida, one of a small number of sea people surviving after the destruction of the earth, conquers her fear of sharks during a crisis in the coral city
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  • The Scarlet Plague

    Jack London

    Hardcover (Ayer Co Pub, June 1, 1975)
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  • The Twisted Window

    Lois Duncan

    School & Library Binding (Turtleback Books, Sept. 1, 1988)
    FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Tracy, a high school junior, becomes embroiled in the problems of a strange boy, who asks her assistance in ""snatching"" his half-sister from her father who has allegedly kidnapped her.
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