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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 copyright © 2013 by Katherine Rundell
Illustrations copyright © 2013 by Terry Fan
A slightly different version was published in 2013 in Great Britain by Faber and Faber Limited.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Rundell, Katherine.
Rooftoppers / Katherine Rundell. — First edition.
pages cm
Summary: When authorities threaten to take Sophie, twelve, from Charles, who has been her guardian since she was one and both survived a shipwreck, the pair goes to Paris to try to find Sophie’s mother, and they are aided by Matteo and his band of “rooftoppers.”
ISBN 978-1-4424-9058-1 (hardcover) —
ISBN 978-1-4424-9060-4 (ebook)
[1. Guardian and ward—Fiction. 2. Missing persons—Fiction. 3. Homeless persons—Fiction. 4. Roofs—Fiction. 5. Paris (France)—Fiction. 6. France—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.R88827Roo 2013
[Fic]—dc23
2012049469