Wade and the Scorpion’s Claw. Tony Abbott
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Название: Wade and the Scorpion’s Claw

Автор: Tony Abbott

Издательство: HarperCollins

Жанр: Детская проза

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isbn: 9780007581887

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       Copyright

      First published in paperback in the USA

      First published in Great Britain by HarperCollins Children’s Books in 2014

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      Cover design © HarperCollinsPublishers 2014, Jacket art © 2014 by Bill Perkins, Logo art © 2014 by Jason Cook/Début Art, Front cover design by Tom Forget

      Tony Abbott asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

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      Source ISBN: 9780007581870

       Ebook Edition © 2014 ISBN: 9780007581887

      Version: 2014-08-05

      Table of Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Chapter Eight

       Chapter Nine

       Chapter Ten

       Chapter Eleven

       Chapter Twelve

       Chapter Thirteen

       Chapter Fourteen

       Chapter Fifteen

       Chapter Sixteen

       Chapter Seventeen

       Chapter Eighteen

       Chapter Nineteen

       Chapter Twenty

       Chapter Twenty-One

       Chapter Twenty-Two

       Chapter Twenty-Three

       Chapter Twenty-Four

       Chapter Twenty-Five

       Chapter Twenty-Six

       Acknowledgments

       About the Publisher

      

      Somewhere over the Pacific Ocean

      Sunday, March 16

      3:51 a.m.

      It was only a dream—a dumb, exhaustion-fueled dream.

      But knowing me, the way I hold on to stuff forever, I don’t think I’ll ever forget it. I’ll probably always remember it as the dream.

      To begin with, my name is Wade Kaplan. I’m thirteen years old and kind of a math geek. I live in Austin, Texas, though I haven’t been there for a very long week. At the exact moment I was having the dream, my family and I were squished on the first of three endless flights from the tiny island of Guam in the South Pacific to New York City.

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