Copyright © 2009 by Joyce Moyer Hostetter
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First edition
First Calkins Creek paperback edition, 2011

Cover illustration copyright © 2011 by Lisa Lyman Adams
Cover design by Robbin Gourley
Title page: Wooden sculpture carved by Michael Martin
Text designed by Helen Robinson

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Hostetter, Joyce.
Comfort / Joyce Moyer Hostetter. — 1st ed.
p. cm.
Summary: In 1945 Hickory, North Carolina, Ann Fay’s father is back from the war but she must still rely on her own strength and determination as she faces the problems of her polio-induced disability and her father’s failure to get a job.
Includes facts about the disability rights movement.
ISBN: 978-1-59078-606-2 (hc) • ISBN: 978-1-62979-292-7 (ebook)
[1. People with disabilities—Fiction. 2. Family problems—Fiction.
3. Emotional problems—Fiction. 4. Poliomyelitis—Fiction.
5. North Carolina—History—20th century—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.H81125Com 2009
[Fic]—dc22
2008043664

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