Arly

by Robert Newton Peck

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  First published in the United States of America in 1991

  by Walker Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, Inc.

  E-book edition published in March 2013

  www.bloomsbury.com

  All the characters portrayed in this story are fictitious.

  Published simultaneously in Canada by Thomas Allen & Son Canada, Limited, Markham, Ontario.

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  Permissions, Bloomsbury Children’s Books, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10010

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Peck, Robert Newton.

  Arly / by Robert Newton Peck, p. cm.

  Summary: Although Arly Poole seems bound to follow in his father's footsteps as a field worker in Jailtown, Florida, where his family lives in 1927 in the shadow of a cruel boss, his world suddenly seems larger when a schoolteacher comes to town.

  [I.Florida—Fiction. 2. Teachers—Fiction.] I. Title. PZ7.P339Ar 1989

  [Fic]—dc 19 88-24339 CIP AC

  ISBN: 978-0-8027-3555-3 (e-book)