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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS


Thank you to all the people who’ve read this story at various stages and encouraged me to keep going. Thank you to Lowry Pei and Angelique Davi, my very first readers. Thank you to Cecil Castellucci for her friendship, love, and unconditional faith; to Holly Black for the call that made everything click; and to Sarah Aronson, Darlene LaCroix, and Cynthia Lord for their honest and valuable feedback. Thanks to my WWaWWa sisters, Cindy Faughnan and Debbi Michiko Florence, who read multiple revisions and never once dropped their virtual pompoms. To my agent, Barry Goldblatt, for believing in me when I didn’t, and to my editor, Joan Powers, who always started with the good stuff and asked all the right questions. Extra special thanks to my husband, Peter Carini, for everything. And finally, thank you to the PEN New England Children’s Book Caucus for selecting Lessons from a Dead Girl as the winner of their 2005 Discovery Award. I am forever grateful.