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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 © 2006 by Wendelin Van Draanen Parsons

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Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers, New York, in 2006. This edition published by arrangement with Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers.

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