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In 1929 J.M. Barrie gave the copyright in Peter Pan to the Special Trustees of Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital. Marking that work's centenary, the hospital authorized the creation of a sequel to Peter Pan. The result of the worldwide search for its author?

MAGIC.

Journey back to Neverland in the first-ever authorized sequel to J.M. Barrie's masterpiece, Peter Pan.

Set in the 1930s, when the devastating effects of World War I are still resonating throughout the world, Peter Pan in Scarlet sends readers soaring into a landscape of magic and adventure, on an unforgettable journey fraught with danger. All is not well. Nightmares are leaking out of Neverland as if chafes against the Here and Now, wearing holes in the fabric in between. Somehow Time is moving on where Time was never meant to. Fearing for Peter Pan's life, Wendy and the Lost Boys go back to Neverland -- with the help of the fairy Fireflyer -- only to discover adventure waiting in ambush and their worst nightmares coming true!

How Peter Pan -- the boy who never grows up -- and his friends restore Neverland to rights is the heart of this brilliant story told in a style that captures the elusive spirit of J.M. Barrie's classic. Illustrated by Scott M. Fischer, Peter Pan in Scarlet is a literary treasure that will leave no heart untouched.

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Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs

Running with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her unorthodox psychiatrist who bore a striking resemblance to Santa Claus. So at the age of twelve, Burroughs finds himself amidst Victorian squalor living with the doctor's bizarre family, and befriending a pedophile who resided in the backyard shed. The story of an outlaw childhood where rules were unheard of, and the Christmas tree stayed up all year-round, where Valium was consumed like candy, and if things god dull, an electroshock-therapy machine could provide entertainment. The funny, harrowing, and bestselling account of an ordinary boy's survival under the most extraordinary circumstances.

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