Like Pickle Juice on a Cookie

PUBLISHER’S NOTE: This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the
product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Sternberg, Julie.
Like pickle juice on a cookie / by Julie Sternberg; illustrated by Matthew Cordell.
p. cm.
Summary: When eight-year-old Eleanor’s beloved babysitter Bibi moves away to care for her ailing father,
Eleanor must spend the summer adjusting to a new babysitter while mourning the loss of her old one.
ISBN 978-0-8109-8424-0
[1. Novels in verse. 2. Babysitters—Fiction. 3. Loss (Psychology)—Fiction. 4. Self-reliance—
Fiction.] I. Cordell, Matthew, 1975- ill. II. Title.
PZ7.5.S74My 2010
[Fic]—dc22
2009015975

Text copyright © 2011 Julie Sternberg
Illustrations copyright © 2011 Matthew Cordell
Book design by Melissa Arnst

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