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Text copyright © 2019 by The Story Pirates

Cover art and interior illustrations copyright © 2019 by Hatem Aly

Excerpt copyright © 2018 by The Story Pirates. Published by Rodale Kids.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: West, Jacqueline, author. | Aly, Hatem, illustrator.

Title: The story pirates present: digging up danger / written by Jacqueline West ; illustrated by Hatem Aly. Other titles: digging up danger

Description: First edition. | New York : Random House, [2019] | Summary: Eliza, a thirteen-year-old ghost hunter, joins her mom on a job in an old flower shop, where she investigates some highly unusual things.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018009731 | ISBN 978-1-63565-091-4 (hardcover) | ISBN 978-1-63565-092-1 (ebook)

Subjects: CYAC: Plants—Fiction. | Florists—Fiction. | Supernatural—Fiction. | Mothers and daughters—Fiction. | Shapeshifting—Fiction. | Mystery and detective stories.

Classification: LCC PZ7.W51776 Sto 2019 | DDC [Fic]—dc23

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Ebook ISBN 9781635650921

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