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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.

Copyright © 2003 by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black

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First Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers paperback edition May 2013

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Black, Holly.

Lucinda’s secret / Holly Black ; [illustrated by Tony DiTerlizzi]—1st ed.

p. cm. — (Spiderwick chronicles ; bk. 3)

Sequel to: The seeing stone.

Summary: With goblins, trolls, and the house boggart all trying to get them, the Grace children turn to Great-Aunt Lucinda for help.

[1. Brothers and sisters—Fiction. 2. Great-aunts—Fiction. 3. Supernatural—Fiction.] I. DiTerlizzi, Tony, ill. II. Title.

PZ7.B52878 Lu 2003

[Fic]—dc21

2003008849

ISBN 978-1-4424-8700-0 (jacketed hc)

ISBN 978-1-4424-8697-3 (pbk)

ISBN 978-1-4424-9621-7 (eBook)