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Boo

Neil Smith

2015310 pagesabout 5–7 hours
2015
first published
  • 2015ENGISBN 9780434023493
  • 2015Vintage Contemporaries/Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC · 310 pages · ENGISBN 9780804171366
  • 2015Knopf Canada · 310 pages · ENGISBN 9780345808141
  • 2016Thorpe · 372 pages · ENGISBN 9781444830019

"One minute, Oliver 'Boo' Dalrymple is next to his locker at school reciting the periodic table from heart; the next he finds himself in 'Town,' an afterlife exclusively for thirteen-year-olds. As Boo works to acclimate himself to his new home, another boy from his hometown--Johnny--appears, seemingly a victim of the same school shooter. A social outcast back in America, Boo quickly finds the friendship and joy that he never knew in life, but as he and Johnny search for the identity of their mysterious murderer, possibly now a fellow resident of Town, they uncover a truth that will have profound repercussions for them both"--

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