Red Midnight (15 page)

RESCUE JOSH M
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GUIRE

SPARROW HAWK RED

STRANDED

COUNTDOWN

PETEY

TOUCHING SPIRIT BEAR

Cover art © 2003 by Cliff Nielsen

Cover design by Andrea Vandergrift

Cover © 2003 by HarperCollins Publishers Inc.

RED MIDNIGHT
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Mikaelsen, Ben.

Red midnight / Ben Mikaelsen.

    p. cm.

Summary: After soldiers kill his family, twelve-year-old Santiago and his four-year-old sister flee Guatemala in a kayak and try to reach the United States.

ISBN 0-380-97745-1 — ISBN 0-06-001228-5 (lib. bdg.)

ISBN 0-380-80561-8 (pbk.)

[1. Guatemala—Fiction. 2. Kayaks and kayaking—Fiction. 3. Survival—Fiction. 4. Emigration and immigration—Fiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.M5926 Rc    2002            2001039834

[Fic]—dc21                             CIP

                                                 AC

EPub Edition © February 2010 ISBN: 978-0-06-200965-4

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