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Authors: Whitaker Ringwald

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Acknowledgments

Huge thanks to Annie Anderson, historic site researcher at Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site, for providing me with maps and photos to help ensure that Jax's journey through the hallways and courtyards was correctly described.

And again, much gratitude to editors Melissa Miller, Claudia Gabel, Katherine Tegen, and the entire team at HarperCollins Publishers. I wrote this novel while trekking through the desert on camel, and my lovely editors never complained about the pages speckled with camel drool, or the envelopes filled with sand.

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About the Author

Before becoming an author,
WHITAKER RINGWALD
was certified as the World's Greatest Snowball Maker and developed a nonstick peanut butter formula in conjunction with lauded Ig Nobel scientists. Whitaker spends six months of every year in a deep sea submersible trying to film live footage of giant squids. But giant squids are hard to come by, so that's where Whitaker gets a lot of writing done.

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Credits

Cover art © 2016 by Erwin Madrid

Cover design by Joel Tippie

Copyright

Katherine Tegen Books is an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.

THE SECRET FIRE
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Library of Congress Control Number: 2016930033

ISBN 978-0-06-221620-5

EPub Edition © June 2016 ISBN 9780062216229

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