Found Things (16 page)

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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 © 2014 by Marilyn Hilton

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Hilton, Marilyn.

Found things / Marilyn Hilton.—First edition.

p. cm.

Summary: Eleven-year-old River Rose, bullied at school and missing her older brother, Theron, makes friends with a strange new classmate, Meadow Lark, and the two search for a miracle by floating wishes down the river.

ISBN 978-1-4424-6087-4 (hardcover)

ISBN 978-1-4424-6089-8 (eBook)

[1. Best friends—Fiction. 2. Friendship—Fiction. 3. Family life—New

Hampshire—Fiction. 4. Wishes—Fiction. 5. Brothers and sisters—Fiction. 6. Identity—Fiction. 7. New Hampshire—Fiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.H56774Fou 2014

[Fic]—dc23

2013019360