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Last night at 2:17 AM, every child from Mrs. Gandy's class went missing.

This post-apocalyptic future story is based on the 8th century Saxon epic poem about the knight who battled a monster in a medieval castle. In this story, Beowulf is a wanderer who learns about a ...