Everything Beautiful (22 page)

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Authors: Simmone Howell

Also by Simmone Howell

Notes from the Teenage Underground

Manifesto Revised

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I believe in Chloe and friendship and love now.

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I will always think of Dylan when I hear the Boobook owl.

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I believe most girls are insecure and most guys are bluffing.

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I believe the more you spill the messier you get.

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I don’t believe in miracles, but I do believe inspirits.

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I believe there are more questions than answers.

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I believe the best part is still to come.

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I still believe in chocolate!

Acknowledgments

I would like to extend elaborate thank-yous to Melanie Cecka, Anna McFarlane, Jill Grinberg, and Fran Bryson for all their smart stuff; country roses to my family and friends who put up with me nicking their stories and dodging their phone calls; excellent scotch to Alana Lucas and Campbell Message for tech support in all things “mutard”; Tiffany glass to Melita Granger, who believed in Riley from the first; and everything beautiful to Mark and Willeford, who keep life sweet.

I wrote
Everything Beautiful
at Glenfern, an old St. Kilda mansion-turned-writers’ residence. Without its existence my book would be half written and covered in Play-doh. Many thanks to Joel Becker, Iola Matthews, and The Victorian Writer’s Centre for the residency, and to the writers with whom I shared cups of tea and word counts.

Copyright © 2008 by Simmone Howell

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission from the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews.

Lines from
With Mercy for the Greedy
Reprinted by Permission of S11/Sterling Lord Literistic Inc.
Copyright by Anne Sexton

First published in the United States of America in November 2008
by Bloomsbury Books for Young Readers
E-book edition published in April 2011
www.bloomsburykids.com

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows:
Howell, Simmone.

Everything beautiful / Simmone Howell.—1st U.S. ed.
p. cm.

Summary: When sixteen-year-old Riley unwillingly attends a religious summer camp,
she forms a deep bond with another camper who happens to be wheelchair bound.
ISBN-13: 978-1-59990-042-1 • ISBN-10: 1-59990-042-4 (hardcover)
[1. Camps—Fiction. 2. Religious life—Fiction. 3. Friendship—Fiction. 4. People with
disabilities—Fiction. 5. Wheelchairs—Fiction.] I. Title.