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Text copyright © 2014 by Patricia MacLachlan
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Jacket illustration by Amy June Bates
Author photograph by John MacLachlan
The text for this book is set in Baskerville MT.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
MacLachlan, Patricia.
Fly away / Patricia MacLachlan.—1st ed.
p. cm.
Summary: While in North Dakota helping her Aunt Frankie prepare for a possible flood, Lucy finds her voice as a poet with the help of her two-year-old brother, Teddy, the rest of their family, and a few cows.
ISBN 978-1-4424-6008-9 (hardcover)
ISBN 978-1-4424-6010-2 (eBook)
[1. Family life—Fiction. 2. Brothers and sisters—Fiction. 3. Floods—Fiction. 4. Poets—Fiction. 5. Cows—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.M2225Fly 2014
[Fic]—dc23
2012040995