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Authors: Stephanie S. Tolan

BOOK: Applewhites at Wit's End

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Thanks to Larry Michael

of the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources for a delightful and very helpful conversation concerning camp regulations!

Thanks to Katherine Paterson

for coming up with the name Furniture of the Absurd for Archie's work as we were writing the dramatic adaptation of
Surviving the Applewhites
. Archie is grateful, too.

About the Author

STEPHANIE S. TOLAN
is the author of more than twenty-five books for young readers, including
LISTEN
, which won the Christopher Award and the Henry Bergh ASPCA Award. Her
New York Times
bestselling novel
SURVIVING THE APPLEWHITES
received a Newbery Honor and was named a Smithsonian Notable Children’s Book, a
School Library Journal
Best Book for Children, an ALA
Booklist
Editors’ Choice, an American Library Association Notable Children’s Book, and an American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults. Tolan lives on a little lake in a big woods in Charlotte, North Carolina, with her husband (Bob), two dogs (Coyote—the real dog from
LISTEN
!—and Samantha), one cat (Puck), two fish, and plenty of outdoor creatures. You can visit her online at www.stephanietolan.com.

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Also by Stephanie S. Tolan

SURVIVING THE APPLEWHITES

LISTEN!

WELCOME TO THE ARK

FLIGHT OF THE RAVEN

ORDINARY MIRACLES

THE FACE IN THE MIRROR

WHO'S THERE?

SAVE HALLOWEEN!

PLAGUE YEAR

GOOD COURAGE

Credits

Cover design by Erin Fitzsimmons

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Applewhites at Wit’s End

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Tolan, Stephanie S.

Applewhites at Wit’s End / Stephanie S. Tolan. — 1st ed.

p. cm.

Summary: Great changes are in store for the highly creative and somewhat eccentric Applewhite family when money problems force them to open a summer camp for gifted children, who almost immediately begin to rebel, while a mysterious interloper watches from the woods.

ISBN 978-0-06-057938-8 (trade bdg.) — ISBN 978-0-06-057939-5 (lib. bdg.)

[1. Camps—Fiction. 2. Family life—North Carolina—Fiction. 3. Creative ability—Fiction. 4. Eccentrics and eccentricities—Fiction. 5. North Carolina—Fiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.T5735App 2012

[Fic]—dc23

CIP

2011019388

12 13 14 15 16 CG/RRDH 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

FIRST EDITION

EPub Edition © JUNE 2012 ISBN: 9780062213372

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