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.

Text copyright © 2020 by Russell Ginns

Cover and interior illustrations copyright © 2020 by Barbara Fisinger

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Ginns, Russell, author. | Skorjanc, Barbara Fisinger, illustrator.

Title: Samantha Spinner and the boy in the ball / Russell Ginns ; illustrated by Barbara Fisinger.

Description: First edition. | New York : Delacorte Press, [2020] | Summary: “After finally finding Uncle Paul, Samantha realizes her brother Nipper is now missing and must find him. But while hunting him down, she must elude the mysterious and nefarious CLOUD that’s hot on her heels”— Provided by publisher.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019018172 | ISBN 978-1-9848-4919-9 (hc) | ISBN 978-1-9848-4921-2 (ebook)

Subjects: | CYAC: Adventure and adventurers—Fiction. | Brothers and sisters—Fiction. | Missing children—Fiction. | Uncles—Fiction. | Family life—Fiction. | Mystery and detective stories.

Classification: LCC PZ7.G438943 Sad 2020 | DDC [Fic]—dc23

Ebook ISBN 9781984849212

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