Girl's Best Friend (17 page)

Acknowledgments

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Special thanks to my Brooklyn research team of tweens for reading an early draft of this story and telling me which parts had to be cut because they were boring or confusing or just kinda dumb: Megan Superville, Layla Beckhardt, Julia Candea, Sophie Nauman, and Zack Palomo. Megathanks to Laurence Richardson for sharing the ins and outs of dog walking in the Slope.

This book would not exist without Michelle Nagler, editor extraordinaire. Thanks to her and to everyone else at Bloomsbury, including Melanie Cecka, Caroline Abbey, Jennifer Healey, Nicole Gastonguay, Donna Mark, Vanessa Nuttry, Rebecca Mancini, Stacy Cantor, Ben Holmes, Deb Shapiro, Beth Eller, and Diana Blough.

Finally, I’m eternally grateful to Laura Langlie, Coe Booth, Ethan Wolff, Jessica Ziegler, Amanda McCormick, and my incredibly supportive and highly entertaining family: Jim, Leo, Lucy, and Aunt Blanche Margolis.

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Boys Are Dogs

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Copyright © 2010 by Leslie Margolis

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First published in the United States of America in October 2010
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows:

Margolis, Leslie.
Girl’s best friend / by Leslie Margolis.—1st U.S. ed.
p. cm.—(A Maggie Brooklyn mystery)
Summary: In Brooklyn, New York, twelve-year-old dog-walker Maggie, aided by her twin brother Finn and best friend Lucy, investigates someone she believes is stealing pets.
ISBN 978-1-59990-525-9 (hardcover)
[1. Dog walking—Fiction. 2. Junior high schools—Fiction. 3. Schools—Fiction. 4. Brothers and sisters—Fiction. 5. Twins—Fiction. 6. Family life—New York (State)—Brooklyn—Fiction. 7. Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)—Fiction. 8. Mystery and detective stories.] I. Title.
PZ7.M33568Gio 2010      [Fic]—dc22      2010000562

E-book ISBN: 978-1-59990-649-2