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Text copyright © 2016 by Jill Diamond

Art copyright © 2016 by Lesley Frances Vamos

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First hardcover edition, 2016

eBook edition, October 2016

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

Names: Diamond, Jill, 1978– author. | Vamos, Lesley, illustrator.

Title: Lou Lou and Pea and the mural mystery / Jill Diamond; illustrated by Lesley Vamos.

Description: First edition. | New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2016. | Summary: “Two best friends with a flair for adventure use their gardening and art skills to catch a criminal during Día de los Muertos”—Provided by publisher.

Identifiers: LCCN 2015036151 | ISBN 9780374302955 (hardback) | ISBN 9780374302962 (ebook)

Subjects: | CYAC: Best friends—Fiction. | Friendship—Fiction. | All Souls’ Day—Fiction. | Mexican Americans—Fiction. | Mystery and detective stories. | BISAC: JUVENILE FICTION / Social Issues / Friendship. | JUVENILE FICTION / People & Places / United States / Hispanic & Latino. | JUVENILE FICTION / Humorous Stories.

Classification: LCC PZ7.1.D498 Lo 2016 | DDC [Fic]—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2015036151

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eISBN 9780374302962

Special thanks to Patricia Williams Sánchez for her careful proofreading of the Spanish text