THE BIG WANDER

WILL HOBBS

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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real locales are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

First Aladdin Paperbacks edition September 2004

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Also available in an Atheneum Books for Young Readers hardcover edition.

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows:
Hobbs, Will.

The Big Wander / Will Hobbs.—1st ed.

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Summary: Although his older brother decides to return home to Seattle,
fourteen-year-old Clay continues his search for his uncle through the ruggedly beautiful
Southwest canyon country.

ISBN 0-689-31767-0 (hc.)

[1. Southwest, New—Fiction. 2. Uncles—Fiction. 3. Horses—Fiction. 4. Navaho Indians—Fiction. 5. Indians of North America—Fiction.] I. Title

PZ7.H6524Bi 1992

[Fic]—dc20 92-825

ISBN-13: 978-0-689-87070-5 (Aladdin pbk.)

ISBN-10: 0-689-87070-1 (Aladdin pbk.)