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Illustrations by Elle Power. Insert lettering by Jim Campbell.

Cover design by Christina Quintero. Cover illustration by Elle Power.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Rivera, Lilliam, author. | Power, Elle, illustrator.

Title: Goldie Vance : the hotel whodunit : an original novel / by Lilliam Rivera ; illustrations by Elle Power.

Description: First edition. | New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2020. | Audience: Ages 8-12. | Summary: In early 1960s Florida, sixteen-year-old Goldie, an aspiring detective at the Crossed Palms Resort Hotel, investigates when a diamond-encrusted swim cap goes missing during the filming of a movie at the resort.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019033910 | ISBN 9780316456647 | ISBN 9780316456630 (ebook) | ISBN 9780316456654

Subjects: CYAC: Mystery and detective stories. | Resorts—Fiction. | Hotels, motels, etc.—Fiction. | Motion pictures—Production and direction—Fiction. | Racially mixed people—Fiction.

Classification: LCC PZ7.1.R5765 Go 2020 | DDC [Fic]—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019033910

ISBNs: 978-0-316-45664-7 (paper over board); 978-0-316-45663-0 (ebook)

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