Octavia Boone’s Big Questions about Life, the Universe, and Everything

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or, if real, are used fictitiously.

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First electronic edition 2012

The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows:

Rupp, Rebecca.
Octavia Boone’s big questions about life, the universe, and everything / Rebecca Rupp. — 1st U.S. ed.
p. cm.
Summary: Seventh-grader Octavia puzzles over life’s biggest questions when her mother seems to find the answers in a conservative Christian church, while her artist father believes the writings of Henry David Thoreau hold the key.
ISBN 978-0-7636-4491-8 (hardcover)
[1. Religions — Fiction. 2. Family life — Vermont — Fiction. 3. Schools — Fiction. 4. Christian life — Fiction. 5. Vermont — Fiction.]
I. Title.
PZ7.R8886Oct 2010
[Fic] — dc22 2009047408

ISBN 978-0-7636-5984-4 (electronic)

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