Text copyright © 2016 by Christine Pakkala

Illustrations copyright © 2016 by Paul Hoppe

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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ISBN: 978-1-62979-324-5 (hc)

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2016932219

First Boyds Mills Press hardcover edition, 2016

First Boyds Mills Press e-book edition, 2016

The text of this book is set in ITC Novarese Std.

The drawings are done in pen on paper, with digital shading.

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