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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Text copyright © 2019 by Tor Seidler
Illustrations copyright © 2019 by Gabriel Evans
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Book design by Greg Stadnyk and Karyn Lee
The illustrations for this book were rendered in pencil and gouache.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Seidler, Tor, author. | Evans, Gabriel, illustrator.
Title: Phoenix / Tor Seidler ; illustrated by Gabriel Evans.
Description: First edition. | New York : Atheneum, [2019] | “A Caitlyn Dlouhy Book.” | Summary: “A New Jersey squirrel named Phoenix teams up with a pack of rats in New York City to save their riverside home from being demolished and turned into a high-rise”—Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018045417| ISBN 9781534426849 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781534426863 (eBook)
Subjects: | CYAC: Adventure and adventurers-—Fiction. | Squirrels—Fiction. | Rats—Fiction. | New York (N.Y.)—Fiction.
Classification: LCC PZ7.S45526 Pho 2019 | DDC [Fic]—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018045417