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Caught in the Act
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Caught in the Act

Dascha Paylor
Apr 13
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Not even a power outage could keep Eli from finishing this book. He had waited for a whole year for the last installment of his favorite series. He had just been getting to the good part when the lights went out.

Mom had said it was time to go to bed anyway. Eli couldn’t settle down. He just had to know how the story ended. Jed was lost in the cave with orcs chasing him. How could Eli possibly sleep?

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