The Distance between Me and the Cherry Tree
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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 products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Text copyright © 2018 by Paola Peretti
Illustrations copyright © 2018 by Carolina Rabei
English language copyright © 2018 by Denise Muir
Previously published in Great Britain in 2018 by Hot Key Books, an imprint of Bonnier Zaffre Ltd.
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The illustrations for this book were rendered digitally.
Jacket design by Debra Sfetsios-Conover
Jacket illustrations copyright © 2019 by Carolina Rabei
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Peretti, Paola, author. | Muir, Denise, translator. | Rabei, Carolina, illustrator.
Title: The distance between me and the cherry tree / Paola Peretti ; translated by Denise Muir ; illustrated by Carolina Rabei.
Other titles: La distanza tra me e il ciliegio. English
Description: First edition. | New York : Atheneum, [2019] | Summary: When nine-year-old Mafalda learns she will go blind in six months from Stargardt Disease, she needs the help of family and friends to retain what is essential to her.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018057766 | ISBN 9781534439627 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781534439641 (eBook)
Subjects: | CYAC: Blind—Fiction. | People with disabilities—Fiction. | Family life—Fiction. | Friendship—Fiction.
Classification: LCC PZ7.1.P44745 Dis 2019 | DDC [Fic]—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018057766