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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.

Copyright © 2014 by Eileen Beha

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Book design by Lauren Rille

Illustrations by Sarah Jane Wright

The text for this book is set in Bell.

0714 FFG

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Beha, Eileen.

The Secrets of Eastcliff-by-the-Sea : the story of Annaliese Easterling & Throckmorton, her simply remarkable sock monkey / by Eileen Beha ; illustrated by Sarah Jane Wright. —First edition.

p. cm.

Summary: An abandoned sock monkey’s adventurous quest to reunite his owner with the one person she most longs to know.

ISBN 978-1-4424-9840-2 (hardcover)

ISBN 978-1-4424-9842-6 (eBook)

[1. Toys—Fiction. 2. Mothers—Fiction. 3. Separation (Psychology)—Fiction.]

I. Sarah Jane Wright, illustrator. II. Title.

PZ7.B3882191Th 2014

[Fic]—dc23

2013044880