Eoin Colfer · 2004 · Novel
Fourteen-year-old Cosmo Hill longs to escape from the Clarissa Frayne Institute for Parentally Challenged Boys. When a rare chance to get away comes, he grabs it, but the attempt goes fatally wrong. He can feel his life force ebbing away, sucked out of him by a strange blue Parasite ... until a wisecracking gang of kids burst in, blast the creature and save him.
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Tags: Friendship in fictionFriendshipOrphansFictionScience fictionOrphans in fictionJuvenile LiteratureJuvenile fictionAccelerated ReaderOrphans and orphanagesneeds-review
isfdb_id: 155146
openlibrary_id: OL5726001W
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