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Text copyright © 2015 by Susan Vaught
Illustrations copyright © 2015 by Jennifer Black Reinhardt
Jacket illustrations copyright © 2015 by John Hendrix
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Vaught, Susan, 1955–
Footer Davis probably is crazy / Susan Vaught.
pages cm
“A Paula Wiseman Book.”
Summary: Eleven-year-old Footer and her friends investigate when a nearby farm is burned, the farmer murdered, and his children disappear, but as they follow the clues, Footer starts having flashbacks and wonders if she is going crazy like her mother, who is back in a mental institution near their Mississippi home.
ISBN 978-1-4814-2276-5 (hardcover)
ISBN 978-1-4814-2278-9 (eBook)
[1. Mental illness—Fiction. 2. Arson—Fiction. 3. Missing children—Fiction. 4. Family life—Mississippi—Fiction. 5. Friendship—Fiction. 6. Mississippi—Fiction. 7. Mystery and detective stories.] I. Title.
PZ7.V4673Foo 2015
[Fic]—dc23
2014009437