First published as Marsmädchen by Tamara Bach
Copyright © Verlag Friedrich Oetinger, Hamburg 2003
First published in Canada and the USA by Groundwood Books in 2008
English translation copyright © 2008 by Shelley Tanaka

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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Bach, Tamara

Girl from Mars / Tamara Bach ; translated by Shelley Tanaka.
Translation of: Marsmädchen.
ISBN-13: 978-0-88899-724-1 (bound).
ISBN-10: 0-88899-724-8 (bound).
ISBN-13: 978-0-88899-725-8 (pbk.)
ISBN-10: 0-88899-725-6 (pbk.)

Cover illustration by Hadley Hooper
Design by Michael Solomon
Printed and bound in Canada