Umbrella Summer (13 page)

Authors: Lisa Graff

About the Author

Lisa Graff
is the author of
THE LIFE AND CRIMES OF BERNETTA WALLFLOWER
and
THE THING ABOUT GEORGIE
, which was named to five state reading lists, including the Bluebonnet master list. Lisa grew up in a small California town very much like the one in this novel and received an MFA in writing for children from the New School in New York City. When she's not writing her own books, she spends time helping other people's books get published. You can visit her online at www.lisagraff.com.

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Also by Lisa Graff:

T
HE
L
IFE AND
C
RIMES OF
B
ERNETTA
W
ALLFLOWER

T
HE
T
HING
A
BOUT
G
EORGIE

Credits

Jacket art by Jennifer Rozbruch

Umbrella image Â© Peter Dazeley/zefa/Corbis

Jacket design by Carla Weise

Copyright

UMBRELLA SUMMER
. Copyright Â© 2009 by Lisa Graff. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

Adobe Digital Edition May 2009 ISBN 9780061912597

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