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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Baughman, Sarah R., author.
Title: The light in the lake / by Sarah R. Baughman.
Description: First edition. | New York ; Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 2019. | Summary: As a Young Scientist, twelve-year-old Addie studies pollution in the lake where her twin brother recently drowned, while secretly continuing his investigation of the creature he believed lives in the lake’s depths.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018056973| ISBN 9780316422420 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780316422413 (ebook) | ISBN 9780316422390 (library edition ebook)
Subjects: | CYAC: Grief—Fiction. | Family life—Vermont—Fiction. | Lakes—Fiction. | Water pollution—Fiction. | Vermont—Fiction. | Mystery and detective stories.
Classification: LCC PZ7.1.B378 Lig 2019 | DDC [Fic]—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018056973
ISBNs: 978-0-316-42242-0 (hardcover), 978-0-316-42241-3 (ebook)
E3-20190726-JV-NF-ORI