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Text © 2020 by Andrew Smith
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Smith, Andrew (Andrew Anselmo), 1959- author.
Title: Bye-bye, Blue Creek / Andrew Smith.
Description: First edition. | New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young
Readers, [2020] | Audience: Ages 8–12. | Audience: Grades 4–6. |
Summary: Twelve-year-old Sam Abernathy, nervous about leaving Texas soon for an Oregon boarding school, has one last adventure with friends when possible vampires move into the town’s haunted house.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020030138 | ISBN 9781534419582 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781534419605 (ebook)
Subjects: CYAC: Best friends—Fiction. | Friendship—Fiction. |
Self-confidence—Fiction. | Haunted houses—Fiction.
Classification: LCC PZ7.S64257 Bye 2020 | DDC [Fic]—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020030138