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	Thompson, Lisa. THE LIGHT JAR New York: Scholastic, 2019 IL 3-6 ISBN 9781338216301
Click on the book to read Amazon reviews	Nate and his mother have gathered the courage to flee from their unsafe household and her controlling boyfriend. They arrive at a cottage in the countryside, and Nate’s mother goes out to get supplies… and doesn’t return. As Nate is left alone, he becomes desperate and befriends a girl trying to solve a decades-old treasure hunt, but Nate gets more than he bargained for in the process. (Oklahoma Sequoyah Book Awards, 2021)
	SUBJECTS:   Mothers and sons -- Fiction.                         Stepfathers -- Fiction.                         Psychological abuse -- Fiction.                         Survival -- Fiction.                         Imaginary playmates -- Fiction.                         Friendship -- Fiction.                         Great Britain -- Fiction.

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