Copyright © 2008 by Porter Shreve
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Shreve, Porter.
When the white house was ours / Porter Shreve.
p. cm.
“A Mariner Original.”
ISBN 978-0-618-72210-5
1. Parent and child—Fiction. 2. Eccentrics and eccentricities—Fiction. 3. Alternative schools—Fiction. 4. Washington (D.C.)—Fiction. 5. Domestic fiction. I. Title.
PS3569.H7395W47 2008
813’.54—dc22 2008011432
Book design by Melissa Lotfy
Printed in the United States of America
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