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SOLVED. Coming-of-age book about a boy finding a stray dog, later this dog becomes a service dog. Read in 2016.
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SOLVED. Horror Anthology Hidden Room in Castle
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Vague Memory Of Book read 1985-1986 - Middle School Age - Few Or No Adults Around - NOT Girl Who Owned A City
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A troubling book about an all-too-believable future. It was fascinating and horrifying to see how the five kids reacted to their imprisonment and the conditioning... and frightening to contemplate how I, myself, might have reacted.

Like many other reviewers, I encountered this book at just the right time to have it stick in my mind long-term. One of my earliest exposures to dystopian fiction, along with The Silver Crown by Robert C. O'Brien.
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I'm thinking that I don't enjoy 70's teen sci-fi. The idea isn't terrible, but the writing is dated.
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Seth
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