Dangerous
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And this is where I’ll end, before I know what happens next.
Acknowledgments
I would have floundered without the extraordinary help of early reader feedback; muchísimas gracias a Dean Hale, Victoria Wells Arms, Gabe Janke, Megan Whalen Turner, and Barry Goldblatt. You guys are seriously cool. All the folks of Bloomsbury gave a lot of hours to this book, including Michelle Nagler, Hali Baumstein, Rachel Stark, and Kaitlin Mischner. Thanks to Ava Cabey for inspiration. Gracias a Rebecca Allred Clyde. ¡Rohayhú Paraguay!
Super cheers to Kindra Johnson, without whose childcare prowess I wouldn’t have finished a book since 2006. Extra awesome babysitting help courtesy of Kayla Huff and Maggie and Amy Thatcher.
All the research was fascinating, but one standout title was The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science by Natalie Angier. I also appreciated Arthur C. Clarke’s The Fountains of Paradise, the first novel featuring a space elevator.
Profound thanks to Dr. Bart J. Kowallis, Dr. J. Ward Moody, Dr. R. Paul Evans, and Dr. Summer Rupper. I love scientists! And I’m not as smart as they are, so any mistakes are mine. Fist bumps to Heather Moody and Abigail and Eli Rupper, who know what it’s like to have scientist parents.
I should also acknowledge my outstanding high school English teachers who showed me how to love poetry: Kathryn Romney, Paula Fowler, and Aisha Barnes. Hugs for high school counselor Lori Hargraves, who taught me teen survival skills.
Works quoted include Edgar Allan Poe’s “A Dream Within a Dream,” William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, the correspondence of John Keats, W. B. Yeats’s “The Second Coming” and “Brown Penny,” and Robert Frost’s “Desert Places.”
Thanks to my readers for being willing to go on this new adventure with me. Besos y abrazos.
Also by Shannon Hale
THE BOOKS OF BAYERN
The Goose Girl
Enna Burning
River Secrets
Forest Born
Princess Academy
Princess Academy: Palace of Stone
Book of a Thousand Days
GRAPHIC NOVELS
with Dean Hale
illustrations by Nathan Hale
Rapunzel’s Revenge
Calamity Jack
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FOR ADULTS
Austenland
The Actor and the Housewife
Midnight in Austenland
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Hale, Shannon.
Dangerous / Shannon Hale.
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Summary: When aspiring astronaut Maisie Danger Brown, who was born without a right hand, and the other space camp students get the opportunity to do something amazing in space, Maisie must prove how dangerous she can be and how far she is willing to go to protect everything she has ever loved.
[1. Astronautics—Fiction. 2. Love—Fiction. 3. People with disabilities—Fiction. 4. Adventure and adventurers—Fiction. 5. Science fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.H13824Dan 2014 [Fic]—dc23 2013034322
eISBN: 978-1-6196-3155-7
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