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You'll pry my books off my cold, dead body. By the time you shift them all I'll be flat and dessicated.
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Winter's Tales
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Already Dead
The Rings of Saturn
Lady Audley's Secret
Unequal Protection: How Corporations Became "People" - And How You Can Fight Back
The City, Not Long After
You Can Sketch: A Step-by-Step Guide for Absolute Beginners
Lonely Werewolf Girl
This is a rare Bellairs with a female protagonist. Lewis is away at summer camp, and his best friend Rose Rita goes to Michigan with Mrs Zimmerman to dispose of some property Mrs Z's cousin Oley left her. Gertie is an angry, unhappy old woman who still carries a grudge against Mrs Z from a fight over a boy when they were girls. She steals Oley's magic ring to use for revenge and Rose Rita is left on her own to save both herself and her friend. Bellairs deals sensitively with issues of gender discrimination and the emotional difficulties of junior high.