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First published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York

This edition published in Australia and New Zealand by The Text Publishing Company, 2022

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ISBN: 9781922458872 (paperback)

ISBN: 9781922459992 (ebook)