The Death-Defying Pepper Roux

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by Geraldine McCaughrean


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  OTHER BOOKS BY

  GERALDINE McCAUGHREAN

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  PETER PAN IN SCARLET

  THE STONES ARE HATCHING

  STOP THE TRAIN!

  THE WHITE DARKNESS

  Credits

  Jacket art © 2010 by Scott Altman

  Jacket design by Ray Shappell

  Copyright

  THE DEATH-DEFYING PEPPER ROUX. Copyright © 2009 by Geraldine McCaughrean. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  McCaughrean, Geraldine.

  The death-defying Pepper Roux/Geraldine McCaughrean.

  p. cm.

  Summary: Having been raised believing he will die before he reaches the age of fourteen, Pepper Roux runs away on his fourteenth birthday in an attempt to elude his fate, assumes another identity, and continues to try to outrun death, no matter the consequences.

  ISBN 978-0-06-183665-7 (trade bdg.)—ISBN 978-0-06-183666-4 (lib. bdg.)

  [1. Adventure and adventurers—Fiction. 2. Disguise—Fiction. 3. Survival—Fiction. 4. Fate and fatalism—Fiction. 5. France—History—20th century—Fiction.] I. Title.

  PZ7.M4784133De 2010 2009039665

  [Fic]—dc22 CIP

  AC

  EPub Edition © December 2009 ISBN: 978-0-06-199190-5

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