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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Text copyright © 2016 by Carol Lynch Williams
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Interior design by Hilary Zarycky
The text for this book was set in Bodoni.
First Edition
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Williams, Carol Lynch, author.
Title: Messenger / Carol Lynch Williams.
Description: First Edition. | New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, [2016] | “A Paula Wiseman Book.” | Summary: “Evie Messenger, who can see and talk to ghosts, tries to solve the mystery of a teenage ghost who is following her”—Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2015049285| ISBN 9781481457767 (hardback) |
ISBN 9781481457781 (eBook)
Subjects: | CYAC: Ghosts—Fiction. | Ability—Fiction. | Supernatural—Fiction. | Mystery and detective stories. | BISAC: JUVENILE FICTION / Family / General (see also headings under Social Issues). | JUVENILE FICTION / Love & Romance.
Classification: LCC PZ7.W65588 Ev 2016 | DDC [Fic]—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2015049285