After the Fire

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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Citra, Becky
After the fire / written by Becky Citra.

ISBN 978-1-55469-246-0

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PS8555.I87A64 2010 jC813'.54 C2009-906859-1

First published in the United States, 2010
Library of Congress Control Number: 2009940905

Summary: When Melissa spends the summer at a wilderness lake with her single-parent mother and bratty younger brother, she makes friends with Alice, a mysterious girl with a strange fantasy life.

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Cover design by Teresa Bubela
Text design and typesetting by Nadja Penaluna
Cover photography by Getty Images

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