Promise

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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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Young, Judy, 1956-

Promise / written by Judy Young.

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Summary: Eleven-year-old Kaden, a boy who lives with his grandmother outside the small town of Promise, learns, just when he is starting middle school, that the father he has never known was released from prison.

ISBN 978-1-58536-914-0 (hard cover : alk. paper) -- ISBN

978-1-58536-915-7 (paper back : alk. paper)

[1. Conduct of life--Fiction. 2. Fathers and sons--Fiction. 3. Ex-convicts--Fiction. 4. Middle schools--Fiction. 5. Schools--Fiction. 6. Grandmothers--Fiction. 7. Crows as pets--Fiction.] I. Title.

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Printed in the United States.

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