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Huge thank-you to the funny, encouraging, and eternally level-headed Michelle Humphrey. May there be an endless supply of mashed potato–topped cornbread cupcakes on your desk, even if I still think they're wrong.

To Margaret Miller goes another big thank-you, for seeing the diamond in the rough and taking a chance on me. Also thanks to Caroline Abbey, who took over this project and made the transition
seamless. You've been awesome from the get-go and I so appreciate you! Thanks to the rest of the team at Bloomsbury Kids who made sure this book was not just readable, but beautiful and shiny and worthy of slipping under my pillow at night.

Thank you to my parents, Dan and Marcia Levy, for teaching me to love books and encouraging me to follow my dreams. And I would be remiss if I didn't thank my brothers for rounding out my rich childhood and providing almost endless material for future books.

And of course, I must thank my husband, Deke—Team Snow cocaptain. I love you more than every letter, comma, and period in this book.

And to the rest of the readers of this book—YOU—my friend, family member, or the person I may not yet know, but who plunked down your money to be entertained by the story I made up in my head: THANK YOU and I truly hope you enjoyed reading this book as much I enjoyed writing it.

Copyright © 2012 by Joanne Levy

First published in the United States of America in July 2012
by Bloomsbury Books for Young Readers
www.bloomsburykids.com

This electronic edition published in July 2012

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Levy, Joanne.

Small medium at large / by Joanne Levy. — 1st U.S. ed.
p. cm.

Summary: After being hit by lightning, twelve-year-old Lilah, who has a crush on classmate Andrew Finkel, discovers that she can communicate with dead people, including her grandmother, who wants Lilah to find a new wife for Lilah's divorced father.

[1. Mediums—Fiction. 2. Dating (Interpersonal relations)—Fiction. 3. Jews—
United States—Fiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.L58323Sm 2012       [Fic]—dc22       2011034463

Book design by Donna Mark

ISBN 978-1-5999-0879-3 (e-book)