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- ↑ Publication history for "All Summer in a Day" at Author Wars web site. "This text is available under a Creative Commons License and may have been adapted from the All Summer in a Day bibliography at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database". Retrieved from http://authors.wizards.pro/books/titles/58363/all-summer-in-a-day.
- ↑ All Summer In A Day Pt. 3 on YouTube