This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 1986 by Helena Clare Pittman

Cover art copyright © 2018 by Maria Nguyen

Afterword by Daniel Rockmore copyright © 2018 by Penguin Random House LLC

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York. Originally published in hardcover by Hastings House, New York, New York, in 1986, and in paperback in the United States by Yearling, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, New York, in 1995.

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