Suzie Townsend, who provides tireless support, guidance, and encouragement to her authors. She’s a superwoman, and I am lucky to have an agent with her skill and kindness in my corner. Thanks to the whole team at New Leaf Literary for being such a wonderful and supportive agency.
My friends, especially Kim Liggett, Michelle Schusterman, and Tara Dairman, who offered wisdom, gentle criticism, and cheerleading in equal measure. Jordan Hamessley, thank you for loving this story—and for taking on the BISAC codes. A special acknowledgment to Laura Stiers, grammar-and-style savant. Every writer should be so lucky as to have Laura’s eyes on her work.
Elizabeth Behrens, my sister, who read each draft with enthusiasm, and was always there with a life vest when things were looking rough.
lebame houston, historian of the Roanoke Island Historical Association, who graciously reviewed the manuscript for historical accuracy and taught me much about the island’s people and history. Professor William E. Coleman pointed me in the direction of many resources on Elizabethan speech. Their expertise was invaluable in the creation of this book—and any mistakes within are my own.
My teachers, librarians, and booksellers, who opened the world to me through literature. It is thanks to them that I write, and this story in particular started way back in Mrs. Gerlach’s fifth-grade class at Thoreau Elementary.
My parents, whose belief in me (and this book) never wavers. Thank you to my Behrens family—Bette, Margaret, Beth, Eyal, and Ben—and my Merriman family—Mark, Brigid, Elise, Grace, and Ben. Most of all, thanks to Blake. The best thing I’ve ever found is you.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
REBECCA BEHRENS GREW UP IN WISCONSIN, STUDIED IN CHICAGO, AND NOW LIVES WITH HER HUSBAND IN NEW YORK CITY, WHERE SHE WORKS AS A TEXTBOOK EDITOR. REBECCA LOVES WRITING AND READING ABOUT GIRLS FULL OF MOXIE AND PLACES FULL OF HISTORY. SHE IS THE AUTHOR OF THE MIDDLE-GRADE NOVEL WHEN AUDREY MET ALICE, WHICH BOOKPAGE CALLED “A TERRIFIC WORK OF BLENDED REALISTIC AND HISTORICAL FICTION.” VISIT HER ONLINE AT WWW.REBECCABEHRENS.COM.
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Additional resources and links to articles are available at
rebeccabehrens.com.
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.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Behrens, Rebecca, author.
Title: Summer of lost and found / by Rebecca Behrens.
Description: First Aladdin hardcover edition. | New York : Aladdin, 2016. |
Summary: Nell is a city girl forced to spend her summer in Roanoke, North Carolina, but when she meets historical reenactor Ambrose, they explore for clues as to what really happened to the lost colonists, turning her once boring vacation into an adventure.
Identifiers: LCCN 2015036440| ISBN 9781481458962 (hardback) | ISBN
9781481458993 (paperback) | ISBN 9781481459020 (ebook)
Subjects: | CYAC: Vacations—Fiction. | Mystery and detective stories. |
Roanoke Colony—Fiction. | BISAC: JUVENILE FICTION / Social Issues / Friendship. | JUVENILE FICTION / Historical / United States / Colonial & Revolutionary Periods. | JUVENILE FICTION / People & Places / United States / General.
Classification: LCC PZ7.B38823405 Su 2016 | DDC [Fic]--dc23 LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015036440
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