Oddity

Oddity

Join a tough eleven-year-old as she faces down zombie rabbits, alien mobs, and Puppet Cartels while trying to find her missing twin in Sarah Cannon's imaginative middle-grade debut, Oddity. Welcome to Oddity, New Mexico, where normal is odd and odd is normal. Ada Roundtree is no stranger to dodging carnivorous dumpsters, distracting zombie rabbits with marshmallows, and instigating games of alien punkball. But things haven't been the same since her twin sister, Pearl, won the town's yearly Sweepstakes and disappeared . . . Along with her best friend, Raymond, and new-kid-from-Chicago Cayden (whose inability to accept being locked in the gym with live leopards is honestly quite laughable), Ada leads a self-given quest to discover Oddity's secrets, even evading the invisible Blurmonster terrorizing the outskirts of town. But one of their missions goes sideways, revealing something hinky with the Sweepstakes . . . and Ada can't let it go. Because, if the Sweepstakes is bad, then what happened to Pearl?

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She told him that pain was something all men must endure deep inside. It bothered Chase greatly. As a young boy, the fortune teller told him that he would someday grow to be the strongest member of the Oddity. When that day comes, he will kill his own father. Chase was much too young to recall this event. But Reece Vega, the father of Chase, received the news with such devastating seriousness. He loved his child no more and resentment deepened with the passing of time. A gunman comes one day to claim the life of the child. Rosaria pushes her beloved son out of harm’s way, and the bullet enters her heart. Reece blames his son for the death of his precious wife and abandons the 9-year-old boy. With no family to turn to, Chase spends his entire life searching for his dead.

Turandot, the Chinese sphinx, a dramatic oddity [in verse] freely tr. from Schiller