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OUTSIDE

Jennifer L. Holm

From New York Times bestselling author and three-time Newbery Honor winner Jennifer Holm comes this chilling but heartfelt story of a girl being raised in a compound who doesn't understand how isolated and unusual her life is...until she must encounter the outside world
WHATEVER YOU DO,
DON'T LEAVE HOME.
Razzi has always been told: Don't go Outside. It isn't safe. There are people and creatures out there that will harm you. The walls of the Refuge will protect you form them.

Razzi's friend Ollie was curious about Outside...and it led to his death. So Razzi is trying to be on her best behavior. She is the oldest
kid left, the one the younger kids look up to. She has to follow the rules.

But Outside has a way of getting in, and Razzi, guided by a dog she has a strangely close connection with, wonders what it's like to run free beyond the walls. If she steps away from everything she's ever known...what will she find?

Jennifer L. Holm's books have sold millions of copies and been widely praised. Her debut novel, Our Only May Amelia, was a Newbery Honor book, and she has received two subsequent Newbery Honors for Penny from Heaven and Turtle in Paradise. Her novel Full of Beans, a sequel to Turtle in Paradise, won the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction. She is also the author of the Ginny Davis series, the Boston Jane series, and the New York Times bestselling The Fourteenth Goldfish and its sequel, The Third Mushroom, which have sold in eighteen foreign territories. Her latest novel, The Lion of Mars, was published by Random House Children's in January 2021. A new graphic novel adaptation of Turtle in Paradise, illustrated by Savanna Ganucheau, was published by Random House Graphic in June 2021 and was an instant IndieBound bestseller. With her brother Matthew, she is the co-creator of multiple award-winning and bestselling graphic novels, including the Babymouse series, the Squish series, and the Sunny Series.
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