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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Text copyright © 2019 by Heather Shumaker

Jacket illustrations copyright © 2019 by Yaoyao Ma Van As

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Book design by Tom Daly

Jacket design by Chloë Foglia

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Shumaker, Heather, author.

Title: The griffins of Castle Cary / Heather Shumaker.

Description: First edition. | New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, [2019] | Summary: “Siblings Meg and Will must uncover the haunted history of their aunt’s quaint town in order to save their younger sister, Ariel, from a ghost intent on keeping her as a friend”—Provided by publisher.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018015659 | ISBN 9781534430884 (hardcover : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781534430907 (eBook) | Subjects: | CYAC: Haunted places—Fiction. | Ghosts—Fiction. | Brothers and sisters—Fiction. | Aunts—Fiction. | Racially-mixed people—Fiction. | Americans—England—Fiction. | England—Fiction.

Classification: LCC PZ7.1.S518 Gri 2019 | DDC [Fic]—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018015659