This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 1951 by Noel Streatfeild

Copyright renewed © 1979 by Noel Streatfeild and Random House, Inc.

Cover art copyright © 2018 by Danielle Kroll

Excerpt from Ballet Shoes copyright © 1937 by Random House, Inc. Copyright renewed © 1965 by Noel Streatfeild.

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Random House Children’s Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York. Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, and simultaneously in hardcover in Great Britain with different illustrations as White Boots by Collins, London, in 1951.

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ISBN 9780525578642 (trade)—ISBN 9780525578659 (lib. bdg.)—ebook ISBN 9780525578666

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