Nobody's Perfect (18 page)
Authors: Marlee Matlin
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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real locales are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author's imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2006 by Marlee Matlin and Doug Cooney
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The text for this book is set in Bembo.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Matlin, Marlee.
Nobody's perfect / Marlee Matlin and Doug Cooney.â1st ed.
p. cm.
Summary: Megan, a popular and outgoing fourth-grader, is sure that the “perfect” new girl dislikes her because she is deaf, but persistence and a joint science fair project help Megan see that the two girls have something in common after all.
ISBN-13: 978-0-689-86986-0
ISBN-10: 0-689-86986-X
ISBN-13: 978-1-481-45639-5 (ebook)
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