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Rocco

by Sherryl Jordan · 1990

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A teenage boy sent inexplicably through time to a savage, primitive society, discovers that he must try to get back to the past where a nuclear holocaust has created this Stone-Age future. A stunning, thought-provoking and riveting science-fiction adventure.

Genre
fantasyfantasyMore like thisLess of thisscience fictionscience fictionMore like thisLess of thisdystopiadystopiaMore like thisLess of thistime traveltime travelMore like thisLess of thisromanceromanceMore like thisLess of this
Audience
young adultchildrens
Length
medium · 246 pages

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