SIMON & SCHUSTER BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS

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

First Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers edition February 2007

Copyright © 2003 by D. J. MacHale

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Book design by Debra Sfetsios

The text of this book was set in Apollo MT.

Library of Congress Control Number 2002108580

ISBN-13: 978-1-4169-3626-8

ISBN-10: 1-4169-3626-2

ISBN-13: 978-1-4391-0346-3 (eBook)