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Afar (2017)

Leila Del Duca

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In a post-industrial desert wasteland, fifteen-year-old Boetema develops the ability to astral project to other planets. On her own planet, with her parents gone, she and her thirteen-year-old brother, Inotu, must cross a dangerous desert to flee a cyborg bodyguard.

ISBN:
9781632159410
Length:
170 pages

Genres: fantasy, graphic novel

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