Water Steps (15 page)

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Larry and Joy Steiner

Ellen Sturgis

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The characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.

© 2009, Text by A. LaFaye

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

 

LaFaye, A.

p. cm.

Summary: Eleven-year-old Kyna has been terrified of water since a storm drowned her family and nearly took her as well, but works to overcome her phobia when her adoptive parents, Irish immigrants with a mysterious past, rent a cabin on Lake Champlain for the summer.

eISBN : 978-1-571-31906-7

[1. Phobias—Fiction. 2. Water—Fiction. 3. Irish Americans—Fiction. 4. Silkies—Fiction. 5. Orphans—Fiction. 6. Champlain, Lake—Fiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.L1413Wat 2009
[Fic]—dc22

2008011684

 

This book is printed on acid-free paper.