Devil's Race
by Avi
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Sixteen-year-old John Proud is tormented by the ghost of an evil ancestor, with his own name and his own face, who was hanged in 1854 for being a demon.Tags
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Avi was born in 1937, in the city of New York and raised in Brooklyn. He began his writing career as a playwright, and didn't start writing childrens books until he had kids of his own. (Bowker Author Biography)
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- Original publication date
- 1984
- Dedication
- For Lucia
- First words
- I sat alone at the far back of the dim classroom, waiting.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)And I knew that I was there, all of me at last, whole and free.
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 9
- ASINs
- 2
