Margaret K. McElderry Books
An imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division
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Copyright © 2002 by Susan Cooper
All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form.
This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real locales are
used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s
imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is
entirely coincidental.
Book design by Sonia Chaghatzbanian
Cover art by Paul Youll
The text for this book is set in Goudy Oldstyle.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Cooper, Susan, 1935-
Green boy / by Susan Cooper.—1st ed.
p. cm.
Summary: Twelve-year-old Trey and seven-year-old Lou, who does not speak, cross the barrier
between two worlds, that of their island in the Bahamas, and a land called Pangaia, and play a
mysterious role in restoring the natural environment in both places.
ISBN-13: 978-1-44244-122-4 (eBook)
[1. Environmental protection—Fiction. 2. Brothers—Fiction. 3. Mutism, Elective—Fiction. 4.
Lucaya (Bahamas)—Fiction. 5. Bahamas—Fiction. 6. Science fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.C7878 Gp 2002
[Fic]—dc21 2001030954