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Authors: Nancy Crocker
Billie Standish Was Here (27 page)
Nancy Crocker
is a native of Missouri who started her career as a singer and appeared with Loretta Lynn at age thirteen. She graduated from Columbia College and since the has been acting and writing. Her work has appeared in the
American Heritage Anthology
, and she is the author of the picture book
Betty Lou Blue,
published by Dial. This is her first novel. Nancy lives with her husband and son near a lake in Minneapolis, where they enjoy fishing. You can visit Nancy at
www.nancycrocker.com
.
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· This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real locales are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author's imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. · Copyright © 2007 by Nancy Crocker · All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form. · S
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is a trademark of Simon & Schuster, Inc. · Book design by Alicia Mikles · Jacket Design by Jessica Sonkin · Jacket photography copyright © 2007 by Trinette Reed/Getty Images · The text for this book is set in Bembo. · CIP data for this book is available from the Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data · ISBN-13: 978-1-4169-2423-4 · ISBN-10: 1-4169-2423-X · eISBN: 978-1-4814-4456-9