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The little robot sat beside her, wagging its rat tail.

Luckily, I managed to escape, but the princess...Oh! Princess, forgive me!

"It looks like you've been making catches like that your whole life," Coach Gilbert said when Teddy got to the sideline.

Whirling, he nipped at the leather strap. "Sit!" commanded the man again.

There was only one thing wrong. I didn't have a big coonskin to add to my collection.

Grandmothers came to their doors, peering out at this boy running through the neighborhood.

He was a small and scruffy dog who smelled like kibble plus something else he'd rather not discuss.

"Now that I'm here, I'm not ready to say good-bye to Jedi Academy."

I knew I couldn't be failing math.

And everyone in town had a smile on their face. It was perfection.

"What will you give to have your mother back?"

"Nonsense. He's a vampire all right. But he's a modern vampire. He gets his juices from a blender."

She was tailoring a jacket for one of her customers, a reminder that even resistance fighters still needed jobs.

When we got back to the motel, there was another Chinese immigrant waiting for us.

"Howdy," I said. "Darrow residence at your service."

"Mr. and Mrs. Miller's bodies were never found."

"And that is why a Jedi must never be far from their lightsaber."

Charlotte knew how to boil oats and make mush for an army, and scrub pots and pans.

And standing on top of the dictionary is a small zombie wearing a chicken suit.

The three mystery solvers and finders of lost things gathered, laughed, and joked.

Calista really was from California. And she didn't know anything about New York.