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Atheneum Books for Young Readers

An imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division

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New York, New York 10020

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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 products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Text copyright © 2007 by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Illustrations of dingbats copyright © 2007 by Brandon Dorman

All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form.

Book design by Debra Sfetsios and Tom Daly

The text for this book is set in Throhand Regular.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Snyder, Zilpha Keatley.

The treasures of Weatherby / Zilpha Keatley Snyder. — 1st ed.

p. cm.

Summary: Determined to be as strong and powerful as the first Harleigh, who built the rambling Weatherby Hall, twelve-year-old Harleigh Fourth and an equally diminutive new friend try to foil the plans of a distant relative who is seeking the long-lost Weatherby fortune.

ISBN-13: 978-1-4169-1398-6 (hardcover : alk. paper)

ISBN-10: 1-4169-1398-X (hardcover : alk. paper)

ISBN-13: 978-1-4814-0082-4 (eBook)

[1. Family life—Fiction. 2. Buried treasure—Fiction. 3. Size—Fiction. 4. Dwellings—Fiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.S68522Tor 2007

[Fic]—dc22 2006010808

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