Pittacus lore
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I Am Number Four Pittacus Lore
Contents
Chapter One IN THE BEGINNING THERE WERE NINE OF US. We left… Chapter Two I STAND IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DRIVE AND STARE… Chapter Three WE PULL OFF FOR FOOD AND GAS AND NEW PHONES. Chapter Four ANOTHER NEW IDENTITY, ANOTHER NEW SCHOOL. I’ve lost track of… Chapter Five I CRAWL TO THE DOOR AND UNLOCK IT. IT SWINGS… Chapter Six I WALK INSIDE AND LIE ON THEBARE MATTRESS in… Chapter Seven I WAKE BEFORE THE ALARM. THE HOUSE IS COOL and… Chapter Eight HENRI IS PARKED EXACTLY WHERE HE SAID HE would be. Chapter Nine EVERY MUSCLE IN MY BODY IS FLEXED, EVERYTHING tense. Henri…
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Chapter Ten BERNIE KOSAR IS SCRATCHING AT MY BEDROOM door when I… Chapter Eleven IMAGES COME TO ME, AT RANDOM TIMES, USUALLY when I… Chapter Twelve HENRI AND I GO INTOTOWN ON SATURDAY FOR the… Chapter Thirteen KIDS RUNNING, SCREAMING, ON SLIDES AND jungle gyms. Every kid… Chapter Fourteen KEVIN STEPS FROM THE TREES, DRESSED AS A mummy. He’s… Chapter Fifteen THE FIRST SNOWFALL COMES TWO WEEKS LATER. A slight dusting,… Chapter Sixteen SAM IS AVOIDING ME. AT SCHOOL HE SEEMS TO disappear… Chapter Seventeen THE NEXT DAY I WAKE EARLIER THAN NORMAL, crawl out… ChapterEighteen AFTER DEBATING IT FOR SEVERAL HOURS, Henri wakes up the… Chapter Nineteen WHILE I WAIT FOR SAM I WALK THROUGH THE house… Chapter Twenty WE DRIVE SOUTH UNTIL, NESTLED IN THE FOOTHILLS of the… Chapter Twenty-One EVERYTHING SLOWS. I SEE A SECOND PERSON at the top… Chapter Twenty-Two WINTER COMES EARLY AND WITH FULL FORCE to Paradise, Ohio.
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Chapter Twenty-Three THE DAY HAS GROWNDARK. THE WARM NIGHT carries a… Chapter Twenty-Four FOR ONCE, SINCE WE ARRIVED IN OHIO, THINGS seem to… Chapter Twenty-Five AND THEN THE WEATHER WARMS. BRISK WINDS, bitter cold, and… Chapter Twenty-Six NOBODY SPEAKS. ALL EYES ARE WIDE-OPEN, staring up in shock. Chapter Twenty-Seven I CAN’T SLEEP. I LIE IN BED STARING THROUGH the… Chapter Twenty-Eight “ARE YOU OKAY, MR. SMITH?” THE PRINCIPAL asks.I look up… Chapter Twenty-Nine “HOW DID YOU KNOW IT WAS ME?” I ASK. Chapter Thirty WIND FROM THE OPEN WINDOW RUSHES INTO the home economics… Chapter Thirty-One ANOTHER ROAR CUTS THROUGH THE NIGHT AIR. through the walls… Chapter Thirty-Two AFTER ALL THIS TIME, ONLY NOW DO I UNDERSTAND. The… Chapter Thirty-Three THE HAZY IMAGE SHARPENS. THROUGH THE exhaustion and pain and… Chapter Thirty-Four IMAGESFLICKER, EACH ONE BRINGING ITS own sorrow or its…
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About the Author Credits Copyright About the Publisher
THE EVENTS IN THIS BOOK ARE REAL.
NAMES AND PLACES HAVE BEEN CHANGED TO PROTECT THE LORIEN SIX, WHO REMAIN IN HIDING.
TAKE THIS AS YOUR FIRST WARNING.
OTHER CIVILIZATIONS DO EXIST.
SOME OF THEM SEEK TO DESTROY YOU.
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THE DOOR STARTS SHAKING. IT’S AFLIMSY THINGmade of bamboo shoots held together with tattered lengths of twine. The shake is subtle and stops almost immediately. They lift their heads to listen, a fourteen-year-old boy and a fifty-year-old man, who everyone thinks is his father but who was born near a different jungle on a different planet hundreds of lightyears away. They are lying shirtless on opposite sides of the hut, a mosquitonet over each cot. They hear a distant crash, like the sound of an animal breaking the branch of a tree, but in this case, it sounds like the entire tree has been broken. “What was that?” the boy asks. “Shh,” the man replies. They hear the chirp of insects, nothing more. The man brings his legs over the side of the cot when the shake starts again. A longer, firmer shake, and another crash, thistime closer. The man gets to his feet and walks slowly to the door. Silence. The man takes a deep breath as he inches his hand to the latch. The boy sits up. “No,” the man whispers, and in that instant the blade of a sword, long and gleaming, made of a shining white metal that is not found on Earth, comes through the door and sinks deeply into the man’s chest. It protrudes six inches out through...
Contents
Chapter One IN THE BEGINNING THERE WERE NINE OF US. We left… Chapter Two I STAND IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DRIVE AND STARE… Chapter Three WE PULL OFF FOR FOOD AND GAS AND NEW PHONES. Chapter Four ANOTHER NEW IDENTITY, ANOTHER NEW SCHOOL. I’ve lost track of… Chapter Five I CRAWL TO THE DOOR AND UNLOCK IT. IT SWINGS… Chapter Six I WALK INSIDE AND LIE ON THEBARE MATTRESS in… Chapter Seven I WAKE BEFORE THE ALARM. THE HOUSE IS COOL and… Chapter Eight HENRI IS PARKED EXACTLY WHERE HE SAID HE would be. Chapter Nine EVERY MUSCLE IN MY BODY IS FLEXED, EVERYTHING tense. Henri…
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Chapter Ten BERNIE KOSAR IS SCRATCHING AT MY BEDROOM door when I… Chapter Eleven IMAGES COME TO ME, AT RANDOM TIMES, USUALLY when I… Chapter Twelve HENRI AND I GO INTOTOWN ON SATURDAY FOR the… Chapter Thirteen KIDS RUNNING, SCREAMING, ON SLIDES AND jungle gyms. Every kid… Chapter Fourteen KEVIN STEPS FROM THE TREES, DRESSED AS A mummy. He’s… Chapter Fifteen THE FIRST SNOWFALL COMES TWO WEEKS LATER. A slight dusting,… Chapter Sixteen SAM IS AVOIDING ME. AT SCHOOL HE SEEMS TO disappear… Chapter Seventeen THE NEXT DAY I WAKE EARLIER THAN NORMAL, crawl out… ChapterEighteen AFTER DEBATING IT FOR SEVERAL HOURS, Henri wakes up the… Chapter Nineteen WHILE I WAIT FOR SAM I WALK THROUGH THE house… Chapter Twenty WE DRIVE SOUTH UNTIL, NESTLED IN THE FOOTHILLS of the… Chapter Twenty-One EVERYTHING SLOWS. I SEE A SECOND PERSON at the top… Chapter Twenty-Two WINTER COMES EARLY AND WITH FULL FORCE to Paradise, Ohio.
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Chapter Twenty-Three THE DAY HAS GROWNDARK. THE WARM NIGHT carries a… Chapter Twenty-Four FOR ONCE, SINCE WE ARRIVED IN OHIO, THINGS seem to… Chapter Twenty-Five AND THEN THE WEATHER WARMS. BRISK WINDS, bitter cold, and… Chapter Twenty-Six NOBODY SPEAKS. ALL EYES ARE WIDE-OPEN, staring up in shock. Chapter Twenty-Seven I CAN’T SLEEP. I LIE IN BED STARING THROUGH the… Chapter Twenty-Eight “ARE YOU OKAY, MR. SMITH?” THE PRINCIPAL asks.I look up… Chapter Twenty-Nine “HOW DID YOU KNOW IT WAS ME?” I ASK. Chapter Thirty WIND FROM THE OPEN WINDOW RUSHES INTO the home economics… Chapter Thirty-One ANOTHER ROAR CUTS THROUGH THE NIGHT AIR. through the walls… Chapter Thirty-Two AFTER ALL THIS TIME, ONLY NOW DO I UNDERSTAND. The… Chapter Thirty-Three THE HAZY IMAGE SHARPENS. THROUGH THE exhaustion and pain and… Chapter Thirty-Four IMAGESFLICKER, EACH ONE BRINGING ITS own sorrow or its…
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About the Author Credits Copyright About the Publisher
THE EVENTS IN THIS BOOK ARE REAL.
NAMES AND PLACES HAVE BEEN CHANGED TO PROTECT THE LORIEN SIX, WHO REMAIN IN HIDING.
TAKE THIS AS YOUR FIRST WARNING.
OTHER CIVILIZATIONS DO EXIST.
SOME OF THEM SEEK TO DESTROY YOU.
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THE DOOR STARTS SHAKING. IT’S AFLIMSY THINGmade of bamboo shoots held together with tattered lengths of twine. The shake is subtle and stops almost immediately. They lift their heads to listen, a fourteen-year-old boy and a fifty-year-old man, who everyone thinks is his father but who was born near a different jungle on a different planet hundreds of lightyears away. They are lying shirtless on opposite sides of the hut, a mosquitonet over each cot. They hear a distant crash, like the sound of an animal breaking the branch of a tree, but in this case, it sounds like the entire tree has been broken. “What was that?” the boy asks. “Shh,” the man replies. They hear the chirp of insects, nothing more. The man brings his legs over the side of the cot when the shake starts again. A longer, firmer shake, and another crash, thistime closer. The man gets to his feet and walks slowly to the door. Silence. The man takes a deep breath as he inches his hand to the latch. The boy sits up. “No,” the man whispers, and in that instant the blade of a sword, long and gleaming, made of a shining white metal that is not found on Earth, comes through the door and sinks deeply into the man’s chest. It protrudes six inches out through...
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