This is the seventeenth book that Rosanne Lauer has edited for me. She always suggests ways that I can improve my original manuscript. I value her skills and cherish her friendship.
I thank Andrea Mosbacher for her careful copyediting. She saves me from embarrassing myself when she corrects my spelling and punctuation.
Lori Robinson and Pam Knight of the Enumclaw, Washington, branch of Bank of America answered my questions about counterfeit money and showed me stacks of one-hundred-dollar bills so that I could correctly describe their size.
Frank Hall helped me write accurately about emergency medical technicians. Mining Tragedies in Carbon River Coal Country, transcribed and edited by Stephen K. Meitzler, was a useful publication.
Special thanks to everyone at Dutton Children’s Books for their support over the many years I’ve been a Dutton author.