The Dead End (11 page)

Mimi McCoy is the author of the Candy Apple books
The Accidental Cheerleader, The Babysitting Wars,
and
Star-Crossed.
She lives in San Francisco, CA, in a house with no ghosts. As far as she knows…

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Copyright © 2010 by Mimi McCoy.
Cover art by Liz Adams
Cover design by Yaffa Jaskoll

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First printing, May 2010

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