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Copyright © 2016 by Shawn K. Stout.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Stout, Shawn K.
A tiny piece of sky / Shawn K. Stout.
pages cm Summary: In 1939 Hagerstown, Maryland, eleven-year-old Frankie faces suspicion that her German-born father is a Nazi spy.
[1. Family life—Maryland—Fiction. 2. Fathers and daughters—Fiction. 3. German Americans—Fiction. 4. Prejudices—Fiction. 5. Hagerstown (Md.)—History—20th century—Fiction.] I. Title. PZ7.S88838Ti 2016
[Fic]—dc23 2015008567 Printed in the United States of America.
ISBN 978-0-399-17343-1
Edited by Jill Santopolo.
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Jacket art © 2016 by Helen Musselwhite
Cover design by Maggie Olson