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A DAVID FICKLING BOOK
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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 © 2007 by Jenny Downham
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Originally published in Great Britain by David Fickling Books, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, in 2007.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Downham, Jenny.
Before I die / Jenny Downham. — 1st American ed.
p. cm.
SUMMARY: A terminally ill teenaged girl makes and carries out a list of things to do before she dies.
[1. Terminally ill—Fiction. 2. England—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.D75918Be 2007
[Fic]—dc22
2007020284
eISBN: 978-0-375-84937-4
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