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Text copyright © 2017 by Corabel Shofner

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First hardcover edition, 2017

eBook edition, November 2017

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:

Names: Shofner, Corabel, author.

Title: Almost paradise: a novel / Corabel Shofner.

Description: First edition.|New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017.|Summary: When twelve-year-old Ruby’s mother goes to jail, Ruby finds her Aunt Eleanor, an ornery nun with some dark secrets, who Ruby hopes will help free her mother.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016038518 (print)|LCCN 2017018123 (ebook)|ISBN 9780374303792 (ebook)|ISBN 9780374303785 (hardback)

Subjects:|CYAC: Mothers and daughters—Fiction.|Single-parent families—Fiction.|Aunts—Fiction.|Nuns—Fiction.|Prisoners—Fiction.|Cancer—Fiction.|BISAC: JUVENILE FICTION / Action & Adventure / General.|JUVENILE FICTION / Law & Crime.

Classification: LCC PZ7.1.S5178 (ebook)|LCC PZ7.1.S5178 Alm 2017 (print)|DDC [Fic]—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016038518

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eISBN 9780374303792