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  Copyright © 2007 Hilary McKay

  First published in Great Britain in 2007

  This ebook edition published in 2011

  by Hodder Children’s Books

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  All characters in this publication are fictitious and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

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  ISBN 978 1 444 90348 5

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