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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.
Copyright © 2013 by Claire Caterer
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Caterer, Claire.
The key & the flame / Claire Caterer.—1st ed.
p. cm.
Summary: While visiting Hawkesbury, England, eleven-year-old Holly Shepard, her younger brother, Ben, and new friend Everett travel to a parallel universe where she learns that the adventures she has always dreamed of can be messy and dangerous.
ISBN 978-1-4424-5741-6 (hardcover)
ISBN 978-1-4424-5743-0 (eBook)
[1. Adventure and adventurers—Fiction. 2. Space and time—Fiction. 3. Magic—Fiction. 4. Brothers and sisters—Fiction. 5. England—Fiction. 6. Science fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.C2687916Key 2013
[Fic]—dc23
2012012658
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