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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 © 2021 by Amy Merrill-Wyatt

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CIP data for this book is available from the Library of Congress.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Wyatt, Merrill, author.

Title: Tangled up in luck / Merrill Wyatt.

Description: First edition. | New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, [2021] | Audience: Ages 8–12. | Audience: Grades 4–6. | Summary: Seventh graders Sloane and Amelia are devastated to be paired for a research project about long-lost jewels, but soon they are finding clues hidden for nearly a century—and realize they are being used.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020052011 (print) | LCCN 2020052012 (ebook) | ISBN 9781534495791

(hardcover) | ISBN 9781534495807 (paperback) | ISBN 9781534495814 (ebook)

Subjects: CYAC: Middle schools—Fiction. | Schools—Fiction. | Friendship—Fiction. | Mystery and

detective stories.

Classification: LCC PZ7.1.W975 Tan 2021 (print) | LCC PZ7.1.W975 (ebook) | DDC [Fic]—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020052011

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020052012