Copyright © 2000 by Ann Rinaldi
All rights reserved. Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Gulliver Books, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 2000.
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Rinaldi, Ann.
The staircase/by Ann Rinaldi.
p. cm.
Summary: In 1878, after her mother’s death on the way west, thirteen-year-old Lizzy Enders is left by her father at a convent school in Sante Fe, where she must deal with being the only non-Catholic student and where she plays a part in what some consider a miracle.
[1. Catholic schools—Fiction. 2. Schools—Fiction. 3. Fathers and daughters—Fiction. 4. Sante Fe (N.M.)—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.R459Sp 2000
[Fic]—dc21 00-8854
ISBN 978-0-15-202430-7 hardcover
ISBN 978-0-15-216788-2 paperback
eISBN 978-0-547-35146-9
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