ATHENEUM BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS

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Illustrated by Adam Stower

ATHENEUM BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS

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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 products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Text copyright © 2012 by Andrew Clements

Illustrations copyright © 2012 by Adam Stower

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Book design by Sonia Chaghatzbanian

The text for this book is set in Garamond.

The illustrations for this book are rendered in pen and ink.

1211 FFG

First Edition

CIP data for this book is available from the Library of Congress.

ISBN 978-1-4169-3888-0

ISBN13: 978-1-4424-6214-4 (eBook)