Drowned Ammet (38 page)
Authors: Diana Wynne Jones
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ORLDS OF
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HRESTOMANCI
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Cover design by Christopher Stengel
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Map by David Cuzic
Drowned Ammet
copyright © 1977 by Diana Wynne Jones
First published in Great Britain in 1977 by Macmillan London Ltd.
Published in 1993 by Mandarin, an imprint of Reed Consumer Books Ltd.
First published in the United States in 1978 by Atheneum.
Published in 1995 by Greenwillow Books.
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With the help of Christopher Chant, can Conrad figure out who is pulling the possibilities and putting his world at risk ⦠and also stay ahead of his dark fate? A Chrestomanci Book.
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