This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2022 by Lynn Ng Quezon

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ISBN-13 978-1-59580-118-0

Publisher’s Cataloging-in-Publication data

Names: Quezon, Lynn Ng, author.

Title: Mattie and the machine / by Lynn Ng Quezon.

Description: Solana Beach, CA: Santa Monica Press, 2022.

Identifiers: ISBN: 978-1-59580-118-0 (print) | 978-1-59580-773-1 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH Knight, Margaret E., 1838-1914--Juvenile fiction. | Inventors--Juvenile fiction. | Children as inventors--United States--Biography--Juvenile fiction. | Looms--United States--History--19th century--Juvenile fiction. | Historical fiction. | BISAC YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Historical / United States / 19th Century | YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Technology | YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Historical / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877) | YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Girls & Women

Classification: LCC PZ7.1 .Q35 Ma 2022 | DDC [Fic]--dc23

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