This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or, if real, are used fictitiously.

Copyright © 2008 by Steve Watkins
Cover illustration copyright © 2011 by A-Digit/iStockphoto (boy on bike)

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First electronic edition 2011

The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows:

Watkins, Steve, date.
Down Sand Mountain / Steve Watkins—1st ed.
p.  cm.
Summary: In a small Florida mining town in 1966, twelve-year-old Dewey faces one worst-day-ever after another, but comes to know that the issues he faces about bullies, girls, race, and identity are part of the adult world, as well.
ISBN 978-0-7636-3839-9 (hardcover)
[1. Family life—Florida—Fiction. 2. Schools—Fiction. 3. Self-actualization (Psychology)—Fiction. 4. Race relations—Fiction. 5. Bullies—Fiction. 6. Florida—History—20th century—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.W3213Dow 2008

[Fic]—dc22     2007052159

“R-O-T-A-R-Y, That Spells Rotary” from the Rotary songbook by Norris C. Morgan. Copyright © 1923 by the Rotary Club of Wilmington, DE. Reprinted by permission of the Rotary Club of Wilmington, DE.

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