Copyright © 2011 by Bethany Wiggins

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First published in the United States of America in September 2011 by Walker Publishing Company, Inc., a division of Bloomsbury Publishing, Inc.

Electronic edition published in September 2011

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Wiggins, Bethany.

Shifting / Bethany Wiggins. — 1st U.S. ed.

p. cm.

Summary: After bouncing from foster home to foster home since the age of five, almost-eighteen-year-old Maggie Mae Mortensen arrives in Silver City, New Mexico, to finish high school and try to escape her reputation as a trouble-maker, only to face ostracism in her new school and a band of evil Navajo Skinwalkers who want her dead.

ISBN 978-0-80272-281-2 (ebook)

[1.  Foster home care—Fiction.   2.  Shapeshifting—Fiction.   3.  Navajo Indians—Fiction.   4.  Supernatural—Fiction.   5.  Indians of North America—New Mexico—Fiction.   6.  High schools—Fiction.   7.  New Mexico—Fiction.]   I.  Title.

PZ7.W6382Sh 2011                [Fic]—dc22                2011005751