The Friendship Matchmaker (12 page)

Copyright © 2011 by Randa Abdel-Fattah

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First published in Australia in 2011 by Omnibus Books, an imprint of Scholastic Australia

Published in the United States of America in July 2012

by Walker Publishing Company, Inc., a division of Bloomsbury Publishing, Inc.

Electronic edition published in July 2012

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Abdel-Fattah, Randa.

The friendship matchmaker / Randa Abdel-Fattah.

p. cm.

Summary: Lara Zany is her middle school’s official Friendship Matchmaker, but a new student, Emily Wong, has her own ideas on the subject and they vie to match two “hopeless cases” with their perfect best friend.

[1. Interpersonal relations—Fiction. 2. Friendship—Fiction. 3. Middle schools—Fiction. 4. Schools—Fiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.A15892Fri 2012 [Fic]—dc23 2011031428

Book design by Yelena Safronova

ISBN 978-0-8027-2833-3 (e-book)