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Name: The new punk
Author: Zev Lawson Edwards

Detroit is the home of Desolation Row, an all boys orphanage. Leader of these abandoned boys is Teenage Wasteland (T.W.), a self-proclaimed anarchist. Challenges arise when a new recruit and a corrupt mayor threaten to turn their world even more upside down than it already is.

First publish date: 2015

Authors: Zev Lawson Edwards

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