Hang Ten for Dear Life!

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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 the product of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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  This Simon Spotlight hardcover edition May 2017

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  Text by Sheila Sweeny Higginson. Cover illustration by Stephen Gilpin.

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  ISBN 978-1-4814-9655-1 (hardcover)

  ISBN 978-1-4814-9654-4 (paperback)

  ISBN 978-1-4814-9656-8 (eBook)

  Library of Congress Control Number 2016957834