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Twenty-four Hours

by Margaret Mahy

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When New Zealander Ellis returns to spend the summer before college at home, he runs into an old delinquent school chum. During the next twenty-four hours Ellis shaves his head, gets a tattoo, falls in love, and rescues a kidnapped baby.

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