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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.
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Copyright © 2007 by E. L. Konigsburg
“How to Tell Portraits from Still-Lifes,” “On the Farther Wall, Marc Chagall,”
“The Modern Palette,” from Times Three by Phyllis McGinley, copyright 1932-1960 by Phyllis McGinley; Copyright 1938-42, 1944, 1945, 1958, 1959 by The Curtis Publishing Co. Used by permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
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The text for this book is set in Bembo.
First Edition Paperbacks edition March 2009
The Library of Congress has catalogued the hardcover edition as follows:
Konigsburg, E. L.
The mysterious edge of the heroic world / E. L. Konigsburg.
p. cm.
“Ginee Seo Books”
Summary:Armando moves to a new town with a dream.He wants to discover something and he wants a friend to share his search.
[1. Friendship—Fiction. 2.Neighborhood—Fiction.Heroes and heroines—Fiction.]
[Fic]—dc 22
2007299434
ISBN 13: 978-1-4169-4972-5 (hc.) ISBN 10: 1-4169-4972-0 (hc.)
ISBN 13: 978-1-4169-5353-1 (pbk.) ISBN 10: 1-4169-5353-1 (pbk.)
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