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by Betty R. Wright


  “Anybody hungry?” her mother called. “I’m coming down.”

  They waved and called back. Meg thrust the notebook at Rhoda. “Will you keep it in your apartment?” she asked. “I’ll pick it up when we get home. Or tomorrow.”

  Watching Rhoda hurry up the steps, Meg realized that the notebook no longer mattered so much. “I suppose I’ll tell Mama, too, someday,” she said. “But not today.”

  Not until she was sure—absolutely sure—that being different meant being special as well. When she was certain of that, Meg thought, she’d be able to make her mother believe it, too.

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  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

  Copyright © 1982 by Betty Ren Wright

  Cover design by Connie Gabbert

  ISBN: 978-1-5040-1332-1

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  In 1935, a new firm called Holiday House set up three desks in the corner of a printing plant and prepared to publish its first list of books. “The event was unique in at least one respect,” Publishers Weekly would say. “The new company was the first American publishing house ever founded with the purpose of publishing nothing but children’s books.”

  The first of its kind, then—a specialized publisher with a unique program and a diminutive catalog, small enough to fit in a child’s palm. The catalog announced five books, three nursery rhyme broadsides, and the publisher’s intentions: “… Its editorial policy embraces only such books as are worthy of inclusion in a child’s permanent library.”

  And so began our history. Holiday House “has changed over the years, sometimes by design and sometimes not. And it will continue to evolve and adapt. Yet in many ways it remains the same old place: relatively small, very independent, and completely devoted to its authors and illustrators.”

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